miniate

verbs

paint with red lead or vermilion
miniate
is derived from
minium
domain category
the creation of beautiful or significant things
"art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
art, artistic creation, artistic production
is a type of (narrower)
decorate with colors
"color the walls with paint in warm tones"
color, colour, emblazon
decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red
"In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated"
miniate, rubricate