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

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Etymology

Origin of oil paint

First recorded in 1780–90

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

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

Now, I’m using oil paint on linen, showing my work to a larger audience, and returning a bit to the beauty of imagination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

He was making reductive monochrome works — horizontal and vertical canvases in a range of subdued tones of oil paint thickened with melted beeswax.

From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

Kaino, employing the same model of embroidery kit — a kind of paint-by-numbers that uses thread instead of oil paint — follows her lead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

An unseen hand turned off the radio as he crossed the threshold, and bags of potato chips vanished, leaving the faint scent of salt to mix with vermilion oil paint and wet clay.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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