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Meaning of Holbeinian | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. In the style of Hans Holbein the younger.
  2. Including every edge exactly once and where, for all x and y, the edges (x,y) and (y,x) have opposite parities.

Examples

“Change Thackeray's spirited devil into a dancing skeleton with an answering grin, and you have a picture that would fit into a medieval, or Holbeinian, Dance of Death.”
“His letters to Anne translate social codes of French diplomacy, Holbeinian portraiture, and Erasmian epistolary friendship into performances of personal desire.”
“Mercator replaced Ziegler's stiff, artificial rivers and lakes with fluid, Holbeinian waters, while the Bavarian's sea - so tormented and heavily worked that it always threatened to inundate the land -- was substituted by patches of placid hatching cruised by ships and improbable fish.”
“a Holbeinian circuit”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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