Word of the Day – Limn

Limn (verb)

lim

To represent in drawing or painting./ To portray in words, describe.

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English lymne, variant of Middle English luminen “to illuminate (manuscripts),” variant of enlumine, from Middle French enluminer, from Latin inlūmināre “to embellish,” literally, “light up”; see illuminate

Example sentences

“I could not limn these views from our trip and do them justice even with a palette of a million colours.”