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- adjective Of or pertaining to the style called
preraphaelitism ; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape. - noun One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.
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Examples
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Very preraphaelite, but richer in colour and more theatrical.
Metropolitan Museum of Illustration James Gurney 2010
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Impressionism in art _versus_ the preraphaelite school.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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This, with Mrs. Saltillo's somewhat precise preraphaelite drawings and water-colors, vilely reproduced by woodcuts, gave quite a sensational air to her production, which, divided into parts, for two or three days filled a whole page of the paper.
Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869
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Paul the octopus and the secrets of the universe | Padraig Reidy preraphaelite
The Guardian World News Padraig Reidy 2010
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Roman78 20 September 2011 12:34PM cantliz 20 September 2011 12:34PM preraphaelite 20 September 2011 12:38PM
The Guardian World News Bill Bailey 2011
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Next to a Greek statue (I mean a real old Greek one; for I am a thoroughly anti-preraphaelite benighted pagan heathen in taste, and intend some day to get up a
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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