Definition of Stipplings

1. Noun. (plural of stippling) ¹

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Definition of Stipplings

1. stippling [n] - See also: stippling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stipplings

stipendless
stipends
stipes
stipiform
stipitate
stipites
stipitiform
stipped
stipping
stipple
stippled
stippler
stipplers
stipples
stippling
stipplings
stips
stiptic
stiptics
stipular
stipulary
stipulate
stipulated
stipulates
stipulating
stipulation
stipulations
stipulative
stipulative definition
stipulativeness

Literary usage of Stipplings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1887)
"there are slight black stipplings on other parts of the back. When provided with dried leaves, the larvae drew them together, forming a very thin cocoon. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1915)
"... concolorous with the lateral color through buffy citrine to russet, the intensive type having the abdominal coloration largely produced by stipplings. ..."

3. The Tate Gallery: (the National Gallery of British Art). by Tate Gallery (1908)
"It is also typical in its deep luminous tone, naivet<j of drawing, execution by glazings and stipplings in some varnish medium over a reddish ground, ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1896)
"... and that like marks, as well as minute stipplings, covered all the blue, and lighter black areas of the face and sides, while along, and to the rear, ..."

5. Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art by Peter Henry Emerson (1890)
"When the original picture is not travestied and cheapened by mechanical-looking crenellations and stipplings, it is marred by obvious handwork and by ..."

6. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1860)
"The two extremities seem covered with minute pits or stipplings, but colourless ; the central part is occupied with yellowish granules pf different sizes. ..."

7. Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker (1910)
"... instead of the touches of Monet) was invented, Renoir in his portrait of Sisley used the stipplings. He painted Richard Wagner at Palermo in 1882. ..."

8. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Munuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1896)
"The two extremities seem covered with minute pits or stipplings, but colourless ; the central part is occupied with yellowish granules of different sizes. ..."

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