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With markers, paints, and chalk, the real star here is the carrying case that easily converts into a two-sided easel.
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Toby Rose, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
My easel, canvases and paints had been exiled to the space behind the basement stairs.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
Sanders: Our artists were traveling all over the place in Hawaii with their easels and their paints, because a photograph will never work.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 July 2024
This term was borrowed in the 16th century, reflecting the idea of a donkey as a supportive beast of burden, akin to how an easel supports a canvas for painting.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Toby Rose, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
My easel, canvases and paints had been exiled to the space behind the basement stairs.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
Sanders: Our artists were traveling all over the place in Hawaii with their easels and their paints, because a photograph will never work.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 July 2024
This term was borrowed in the 16th century, reflecting the idea of a donkey as a supportive beast of burden, akin to how an easel supports a canvas for painting.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Easel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/easel. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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easel
noun
ea·sel
ˈē-zəl 
: a frame for supporting something (as an artist's canvas)
Etymology
from Dutch ezel "a frame to hold an artist's canvas," literally, "donkey"
Word Origin
An easel is a frame for holding up such things as an artist's painting or a chalkboard. In the 17th century the Dutch had become famous throughout Europe for their oil painting. Thus it was their word ezel, which they used to refer to this piece of equipment, that was borrowed into English around that time. This sense of ezel was an extension of the original meaning "donkey," probably because an easel, like a beast of burden, is used to hold things.
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