sand painting

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   a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho); made of fine colored sands on a neutral background

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Questions about sand painting

What does sand painting mean?

sand painting means "a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho); made of fine colored sands on a neutral background".

Is sand painting a common word?

sand painting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.