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Grouping   /grˈupɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Grouping  n.  (Fine Arts) The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.



verb
Group  v. t.  (past & past part. grouped; pres. part. grouping)  To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of. "The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or, as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects."
Grouped columns (Arch.), three or more columns placed upon the same pedestal.






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"Grouping" Quotes from Famous Books



... an area of about four or five acres, and was closely hemmed in by the forest, which in picturesque variety and grouping of trees and foliage exceeded almost everything I had yet witnessed. The margins for some distance were swampy, and covered with large tufts of a fine grass called Matupa. These tufts in many places were overrun with ferns, and exterior to them a crowded row of arborescent ...
— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates

... beauty, Monsieur Choulette; you repudiate her, nude and in tears. Be certain of this: she will not remain on earth when the poor little men shall all be weak, delicate, and ignorant. Believe me, to abolish the ingenious grouping which men of diverse conditions form in society, the humble with the magnificent, is to be the enemy of the poor and of the rich, is to be the enemy of the ...
— The Red Lily, Complete • Anatole France

... conscious of a sudden pang at this grouping of names by Mrs. Fallows, but before she had time to ...
— The Doctor - A Tale Of The Rockies • Ralph Connor

... low center wardrobes give an unobstructed view all over the store and are the only wardrobes made that are entirely practical for grouping in front of a ...
— Sam Lambert and the New Way Store - A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks • Unknown

... painting, the marked figures must be few, the action obvious, the costume, arms, architecture, postures historically exact, and the manners, appearance, and rank of the characters strictly studied and observed. The grouping and drawing require great truth and vigour. A similar set of subjects illustrating social life could be got from the Poor Report, Carleton's, Banim's, or Griffin's stories, ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis


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