Easel
['iːz(ə)l] or ['izl]
Definition
(noun.) an upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
Checked by Adelaide--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.
Typist: Mabel
Definition
n. the frame on which painters support their pictures while painting.
Typed by Keller
Examples
- In this room, too, there was a cabinet piano, quite new and of superior tone; also an easel for painting and a pair of globes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Her pallet and easel were now thrown aside; did she try to paint, thronging recollections made her hand tremble, her eyes fill with tears. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His face was so directed in reference to the spot where Little Dorrit stood by the easel, that throughout he looked at her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Easels and plastercasts were mixed with type-moulds and galvanic batteries, and Morse turned from a portrait to his working model of telegraph transmitter and back again a dozen times a day. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There were a dozen easels in the room, and as many artists transferring the great picture to their canvases. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Penelope