vanitas

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noun vanitas a type of still-life painting that flourished in the Netherlands from about 1620 to 1650, conveying a religious message and characterized by objects symbolic of mortality and the meaninglessness of worldly pleasures. 1
noun vanitas a type of Dutch symbolic still life painting common in the 16th and 17th centuries 0
noun vanitas vanity; futility 0
noun vanitas a work of art containing symbols of mortality or the impermanence of material things; esp., a 17th-cent. Dutch painting of this kind 0
adjective vanitas of or relating to this genre 0
noun vanitas (painting) A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 0

before 1905

One of the 15% newest English words

1905-10; Latin: literally, vanity

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