paintureEtymologyFrench peinture. See paint and compare picture.nounThe art of painting.“To the next realm she stretched her sway, For Painture I near adjoining lay”A painting.“And yet there is at Alexandria a fair church, all white without paintures; and so be all the other churches that were of the Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls.”