word painting

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word painting (countable and uncountable, plural word paintings)

  1. A visually evocative poem or other piece of writing.
  2. The act of writing such a piece.
    • 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 1:
      Word-painting has become a science, and almost every corner of the globe has been described and traversed by that genus homo, the inevitable "globe-trotter".
  3. (music) Program music, or the process of composing it.