aquarelle
Americannoun
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aquarelles
plural
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a watercolor.
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Printing. a printed picture that has been colored manually by applying watercolor through stencils, each color requiring a different stencil.
noun
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a method of watercolour painting in transparent washes
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a painting done in this way
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Origin of aquarelle
1865–70; < French < Italian acquarella (now obsolete) watercolor, equivalent to Latin aquār ( ius ) of water ( see aquarium) + Italian -ella -elle
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This collection’s pink and white aquarelle palette evoked the vibrant style of the Ballets Russes as envisioned by Léon Bakst and Sergei Diaghilev.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
For it's a blue-shift world we occupy, Dilemma-prone, clear-cut solutions rare, And clashing viewpoints often held at bay By hues, just short of violet, that eschew Sharp contrasts for an azure aquarelle.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 7, 2022
All around the porticos and galleries full panels were reserved upon which M. Charles Touché placed decorative compositions broadly treated in aquarelle illustrating, so to say, the history of labor.
From The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 by Various
It gives a shallow colour; and even those who love their sky streaked and tumbled into the chaos of smoke should not be allowed to defend the aquarelle that colours their buildings.
From London Impressions Etchings and Pictures in Photogravure by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
He recognised it instantly from the aquarelle that is in the dining-room at home.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
And in my New York gallery you will find Munkácsy genres, Zichy aquarelles, a Benczur, and some other equally fine Hungarian pictures.
From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Mór Jókai
I ought, I said to myself, to be well-contented, for the dinner was excellent, and the surroundings a picture in aquarelles.
From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
After luncheon the Grand Duchess took me into her boudoir and showed me all her souvenirs—photographs of Bernstorff, a screen painted by the Queen of Denmark, and aquarelles of Gmunden, her home.
From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
This was another of the labors which he often intrusted to her—to make drawings, aquarelles, and pastels, which he afterward used in his works as plates.
From Doctor Pascal by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
In his most hurried crayons, pen-and-ink sketches, and aquarelles Guys is ever interesting.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
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