oil paint

American  

noun

oil paints plural

1. oil color.

2. a commercial paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle.

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oil paint British  

noun

1. paint made of pigment ground in oil, usually linseed oil, used for oil painting

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• oil paints
  plural

Etymology

Origin of oil paint

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

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oil paint

Glenys has never used a paint brush, instead preferring the "immediacy" of working oil paint with torn pieces of fabric and her fingers.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024

The worthy effort to emphasize that much of the artist’s inventive genius — unfurling in thousands of manuscript pages, rather than oil paint and tempera — makes the dull staging a perhaps unavoidable conceit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2024

“Work 73-13” is a large, earthy, monochrome abstraction, its mottled muddy color achieved by pushing brown oil paint through rough jute from behind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

According to organizers, over 80 artists of all experience levels participated using watercolor, acrylic, and oil paint.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2023

Thanks to rubber cement and oil paint, our toilet could quickly be repaired.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank