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• GRECO (noun)
The noun GRECO has 1 sense:
1. Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614)
Familiarity information: GRECO used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Domenikos Theotocopoulos; El Greco; Greco
Instance hypernyms:
old master (a great European painter prior to 19th century)
Context examples
I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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