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rhyparography
"The painting of distasteful or sordid subjects", Late 17th cent.; earliest use found in Edward Phillips (b. 1630), writer and biographer. From classical Latin
rhyparographos
painter of low or sordid subjects +
-y
; compare
-graphy
.