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noun
The specialist vocabulary and language associated with art and artists, especially when seen as complicated or pretentious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, often, uncountable
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2er- Proto-Indo-European *h2értis Proto-Italic *artis Latin ars Latin artemder. Old French artbor. Middle English art English art English -speak English artspeak From art + -speak.
