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Definition of Rhyparography

Rhyparography
Rhyparography Rhy`pa*rog"ra*phy, n. [Gr. ???? painting foul or mean objects; "ryparo`s filthy, dirty + gra`fein to write, paint.] In ancient art, the painting of genre or still-life pictures.

Meaning of Rhyparography from wikipedia

- of low or mean subjects", which the OED first records in 1656, with "rhyparography" in 1678. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of classical Antiquities...