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Preraphaelite   Listen
adjective
Preraphaelite  adj.  Of or pertaining to the style called preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Preraphaelite" Quotes from Famous Books



... which had served to decorate the porch of Saint-Andre-des-Champs, and particularly in the feelings of respect due, in Franchise's eyes, to all 'poor invalids,' and, above all, to her own 'poor mistress,' that he had, when he bent down to raise my aunt's head from her pillow, the same air of preraphaelite simplicity and zeal which the little angels in the has-reliefs wear, who throng, with tapers in their hands, about the deathbed of Our Lady, as though those carved faces of stone, naked and grey like trees in winter, ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... as I recollect, expressed astonishment and dislike of what they called the 'Preraphaelite' treatment, but we were not affected by that. Indeed, if anything, the exact, minute and hard execution of Mr. Hunt was in sympathy with the methods we ourselves were in the habit of using when we painted butterflies and seaweeds, placing ...
— Father and Son • Edmund Gosse



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