tonalise

English

Verb

tonalise (third-person singular simple present tonalises, present participle tonalising, simple past and past participle tonalised)

1. (art, painting) To view or create in terms of tonalism.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 178:

     With that, he stood rasping his beard, and frowning at her, and going back a few paces to frown and peer at her from this and that angle. Cora knew what that meant, and stood to be tonalised, relieving self-consciousness in her muscles by stretching and relaxing, and preening up her breasts in those cat-like turnings and twistings of her body that seemed to make an ostentatious exhibition of its graces because of her affectation of unawareness in being looked at.