easel

[ US /ˈizəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ˈiːzə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. an upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas)
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How To Use easel In A Sentence

  • I call him the little weasel, a little northern monkey. Times, Sunday Times
  • The legs of the easel are mounted on a horizontal stand and the painting rests on a ledge, in early versions supported on pegs but subsequently replaced by a geared system to raise or lower the painting by winding a crank.
  • Another modern coat which may provoke a groan is that granted in 1977 to Dr. Claude Bursill, which includes three burrs, or teasels, and the heraldic ordinary known as a fess, which resembles a horizontal slab or sill. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1
  • Many people striving to get through the next fortnight of seemingly ceaseless spending may be tempted to spread the cost with a zero per cent credit card. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mammals such as weasels, foxes, stoats and especially roe deer can wander safely without the risk of being killed by traffic.
  • The Croatian currency is the kuna, apparently named after a small furry animal like a stoat or weasel, the pelts of which used to be traded.
  • Hence to entire sincerity there belongs ceaselessness. The doctrine of the mean
  • He's slowly painting a picture on an easel that's facing away from you.
  • Preyed upon by hawks, foxes, and weasels, they may also fall victim to domestic cats.
  • It is constant and ceaseless in the vast majority of us, as uncritical self-observation will soon reveal.
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