nazarenes

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nazarenes - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Preraphaelite \Pre*raph"a*el*ite\, n.
     1. One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael;
        one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Popularly, any modern artist thought to be a would-be
        restorer of early ideas or methods, as one of the German
        painters often called Nazarenes, or one who paints and
        draws with extreme minuteness of detail.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]