Definitions for easel

easel ea·sel

Spelling: [ee-zuh l]
IPA: /ˈi zəl/

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

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in easel (aeels).

Definitions for easel

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 easel

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 easel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for easel
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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