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Watercolour

noun
1.
Water-soluble pigment.  Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor.
2.
A water-base paint (with water-soluble pigments); used by artists.  Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor.
3.
A painting produced with watercolors.  Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor.
4.
The art or technique of painting with watercolors.  Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor.
verb
1.
Paint with watercolors.  Synonym: watercolor.



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"Watercolour" Quotes from Famous Books



... breakfast room, which looks to the Tweed on one side, and towards Yarrow and Ettricke, famed in song, on the other: a cheerful room, fitted up with novels, romances, and poetry, I could perceive, at one end; and the other walls covered thick and thicker with a most valuable and beautiful collection of watercolour drawings, chiefly by Turner and Thomson of Duddingstone, the designs, in short, for the magnificent work entitled "Provincial Antiquities of Scotland." There is one very grand oil painting over the chimney-piece, Fastcastle, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 12, No. 339, Saturday, November 8, 1828. • Various

... Mr. Armstrong? And, oh, Juliette, bring to me that last little portfolio of watercolour drawings. You know ...
— Despair's Last Journey • David Christie Murray

... drawing. "I will tell you. That bald man in the corner is seventy-two; painting is his amusement, and he loves models. He wants to marry Fortunata, but she won't have him because he is toothless. Once, twenty-five years ago, he sold a watercolour for ten lire and he ...
— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton



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