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easel
Part of speech: NounA frame or tripod for holding a canvas, picture, etc.
Usage examples "easel":- He stepped inside to see, but the canvas only had a few rude, reddish lines upon it, and Elsie laughed at his blank look as he faced the easel. - "The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop", Hamlin Garland.
- The room which leads from this one is much less valuable; but Fra Bartolommeo's Vision of S. Bernard has lately been brought to an easel here to give it character. - "A Wanderer in Florence", E. V. Lucas.
- Here he had fashioned himself rudely an easel in rough lumber, and here, on the great sea of stretched paper, he had given shape to one of the innumerable fancies which possessed his brain. - "Journeys Through Bookland Volume Four", Charles H. Sylvester.