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- Authentic: adj.
- 1.Conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, relience, or belief.
- 2.Having a claimed and verifiable origin or authorship: not counterfeit or copied.
- Pennsylvania Dutch: n.
- 1. The descendants of 17th- and 18th-century settlers in Pennsylvania from southwest Germany and Switzerland.
- 2. Also called Pennsylvania German. a dialect of High German with an admixture of English spoken mainly in eastern Pennsylvania, developed from the language of these settlers.
- 3. The folk style of applied and decorative art developed by the Pennsylvania Dutch.
- Art: n.
- 1. The quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
- 2. The class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art;
- 3. A field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art.
- 4. The fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture.
- 5. Any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art.
- 6. (in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material.
- 7. The principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of design; the art of baking; the art of selling.
- Design: n.
- 1. An outline, sketch, or plan, as of the form and structure of a work of art, an edifice, or a machine to be executed or constructed.
- 2. Organization or structure of formal elements in a work of art; composition.
- 3. The combination of details or features of a picture, building, etc.; the pattern or motif of artistic work: the design on a bracelet.
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