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Pre-Raphaelite(dictionary)

Pre-Raphaelite (iou)



Pre-Raphaelite noun & adjective. M19.
[from PRE- 2 + Raphael, Italian Raffaello, -aele (see below) + -ITE1.]
A. noun. Any of a group of 19th-cent. English painters (including Holman Hunt, Millais, and D. G. Rossetti) who called themselves 'the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood' and sought to return to a style and spirit prevalent before the time of the Italian artist Raphael (1483-1520); gen. any artist working in such a style. M19.
B. attrib. or as adjective.
1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites or their principles or style. M19.
b. Resembling the female models favoured by the Pre-Raphaelites in slenderness, long wavy hair, etc. L20.
N. Bawden She was a lovely girl in a rather droopy, Pre-Raphaelite way.
2. Existing before Raphael. M19.
Pre-Raphaelitic adjective L19.
Pre-Raphaelitically adverb L19.
Pre-Raphaelitism noun the principles, or the style of painting, of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their followers; a similar tendency in poetry and other arts: M19.