silverpoint

Noun

Meaning

a drawing made on specially prepared paper with an instrument having a silver tip (15th and 16th centuries)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

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Hypernyms

drawing

Examples

Among these were his 1516 studies of Jakob and Dorothea Meyer, sketched, like many of his father's portrait drawings, in silverpoint and chalk. Source: Internet

Representations Holbein's studies of Erasmus's hands, in silverpoint and chalks, ca. 1523. Source: Internet

By contrast, fine silver particles form the dense black in photographs and in silverpoint drawings. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

silverpatch silverplate silverplated silverrod silverside silversides