word painting

Definitions

1. A visually evocative poem or other piece of writing.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act of writing such a piece.
   countable, uncountable
3. Program music, or the process of composing it.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Word-painting has become⟳ a science, and almost every corner of the globe has been described and traversed by that genus homo, the inevitable "globe-trotter".”

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