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Definition of Scumbles
1. scumble [v] - See also: scumble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scumbles
Literary usage of Scumbles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Beatrice D'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497: A Study of the Renaissance by Mrs. Julia Mary Cartwright Ady (1903)
"There, among them all, the painter bends over his canvas seeking to perfect the
glazes and scumbles of his pearly tints, or trying to realize some dream of ..."
2. Beatrice D'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497: A Study of the Renaissance by Julia Mary Cartwright Ady (1920)
"There, among thrall, the painter bends over his canvas seeking to perfect the
glazes and scumbles of his pearly tints, or trying to realize some dream of a ..."
3. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society by Massachusetts Historical Society (1914)
"I think when he comes to the feet and hands he seems loath to Dray the fingers
or Toes but scumbles them as much as possable in to a ..."
4. American Painting and Its Tradition: As Represented by Inness, Wyant, Martin by John Charles Van Dyke (1919)
"Homer knows no tricks of handling, and will resort to no glazes, scumbles, or
stipples. He makes his statement so unadorned that it seems almost crude or ..."
5. The Whistler Journal by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell (1921)
"... waiting they supposed for the glazes and scumbles that would turn them into
masterpieces. As far as we know, no new works came out of the studio. ..."
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