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OUTLIER Word Stories · How I knew it

ZENITHAL

“In minature painting, if you prime a miniature with black and then hit it from above with white, that's considered a zenithal highlight, so that's how I learned this one. I assume it has more interesting definitions outside of this context that I do not know.”

Found on Day 145

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