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SILVERPOINT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A drawing made on specially prepared paper with an instrument having a silver tip (15th and 16th centuries)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("silverpoint" is a kind of...):
drawing (a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines)