Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the fine arts, the art or process of glazing a picture by rubbing on a thin covering of color with the hand. It was a device much practised by early Italian painters.
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Examples
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Larentia lay buried; the spot is at this day called Velabrum, because, the river frequently overflowing, they went over in ferry-boats somewhere hereabouts to the forum, the Latin word for ferrying being velatura.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Varro, however, says that they were so called from the verb "veho," "to carry;" because in early times those spots were traversed in boats, which mode of carriage was called "velatura."
The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847
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This place is now called Velabrum, because during the frequent overflowings of the river, people used there to be ferried over to the market-place; now they call ferrying _velatura_.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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