limner

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LIM'NER, noun [Latin illuminator, in the middle ages, alluminor.] 1. One that colors or paints on paper or parchment; one who decorates books with initial pictures. 2. A portrait painter.
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