Definition of "limners" [limners]

• Plural form of limner. (noun)

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• "Despite this, Deas's portraits are bland descendants of the primitive likenesses done by Colonial and Federal-era limners."
• "But to detail all the absurdities and indecencies of these revered artists, whether limners, or carvers in wood, were endless."
• "Wallingford, to carry out his great designs, and many more skilled limners whose names have gone down into silence."