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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Preraphaelite

· Pre·raph·a·el·ite · IPA
01 a. Of or pertaining to the style called preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape.
  1. 1.
    Of or pertaining to the style called preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape.
02 n. One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.
  1. 1.
    One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.
  2. 2.
    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.