alluminor

English

Etymology

From Old French alumineor, from Latin ad + liminare. See luminate.

Noun

alluminor (plural alluminors)

(obsolete) An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner.
- 1607, John Cowell, The Interpreter:
  Alluminor denotes one, that by his Trade coloureth or painteth upon Paper or Parchment. At this day we call such a one a Limner.

References

“alluminor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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