as in painting
a picture created with oil paint
hung a beautiful oil painting of the bay on the living room wall
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Upstairs, the rooms are individually designed but all feature four poster beds, oil paintings and antiques and have balconies facing either the courtyard or Toulouse Street.
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Laurie Werner, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
Taking you back further to a different period is the Library-Lounge, with its red walls, wood-panelling and oil paintings giving a nod to a Tudor aesthetic.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Hals, too, painted the faces of a new secular élite that sought to flatter itself with the permanence of oil painting; Hals, too, caught the abundance as well as the wobbling precarity of his clients’ world, the sense that all this could tumble down tomorrow.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
There was art, too: big, expensive (up to $200,000 apiece), ironic oil paintings.
—Jay Bulger, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
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Laurie Werner, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
Taking you back further to a different period is the Library-Lounge, with its red walls, wood-panelling and oil paintings giving a nod to a Tudor aesthetic.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Hals, too, painted the faces of a new secular élite that sought to flatter itself with the permanence of oil painting; Hals, too, caught the abundance as well as the wobbling precarity of his clients’ world, the sense that all this could tumble down tomorrow.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
There was art, too: big, expensive (up to $200,000 apiece), ironic oil paintings.
—Jay Bulger, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Oil painting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oil%20painting. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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