Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EAS'EL
EAS'EL, n.
The frame on which painters place their canvas. Easel-pieces, among painters, are the smaller pieces, either portraits or landscapes, which are painted on the easel, as distinguished from those which are drawn on walls, ceilings, &c. Encyc. Chalmers.
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