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preraphaelite

CIDE DICTIONARY

preraphaelitea. 
     Of or pertaining to the style called preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape.  Ruskin.  [1913 Webster]
preraphaeliten. 
  •  One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Popularly, any modern artist thought to be a would-be restorer of early ideas or methods, as one of the German painters often called Nazarenes, or one who paints and draws with extreme minuteness of detail.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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