Definitions for easels

easels ea·sel

Spelling: [ee-zuh l]
IPA: /ˈi zəl/

Easels is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in easels (aeelss).

Definitions for easels

noun

  1. a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
  2. Also called masking frame. Photography. a frame, often with adjustable masks, used to hold photographic paper flat and control borders when printing enlargements.

Origin of easels

1625-35; Dutch ezel ass, easel (cognate with German Esel, Old English esel ass) Vulgar Latin *asilus, for Latin asellus, diminutive of asinus ass1

Examples for easels

And it was there, 'on the easel,' that 'The Dead Child' at last made its appearance.

She left the easel in disgust and refused to touch it again for a week.

A photograph showed Bush hunched over an easel in what appears to be a home gym.

I'm afraid my scruples vanished when I got him before my easel.

While moving a framed canvas from one easel to another my foot slipped on the polished floor, and I fell heavily on both wrists.

Her easel was there, and her half-rubbed out drawing—No, that was not her drawing.

The last drawing, he reveals, will be of Arthur sitting at an easel painting Denison.

On the easel sits a depiction of sun shining through trees, illuminating the grass below.

She asked to see it, and I wheeled out the easel and threw the drapery back.

I went back to my easel and motioned the model to resume her pose.

Word Value for easels
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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