Aquarelle

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A watercolour (painting)

    "He looked out between whiles at the pleasant English land, an April aquarelle washed in with wondrous breadth."

  2. 2
    A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolour through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour.

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canvasfinger paintingoilpaintingtemperawash

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"He looked out between whiles at the pleasant English land, an April aquarelle washed in with wondrous breadth."

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French aquarelle, from obsolete Italian acquarella (“watercolour”) (later acquarello and acquerello).

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