alluminor

English

Etymology

From Old French alumineor, from Latin ad + liminare. See luminate.

Noun

alluminor (plural alluminors)

  1. (obsolete) An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner.
    • 1607, John Cowell, The Interpreter
      Alluminor denotes one, that by his Trade coloureth or painteth upon Paper or Parchment. At this day we call such a one a Limner.

References
  • alluminor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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