aquarelle

American  

[ak-wuh-rel, ah-kwuh-, a-kwa-rel] / ˌæk wəˈrɛl, ˌɑ kwə-, a kwaˈrɛl /

noun

• aquarelles
  plural

1. a watercolor.

2. Printing. a printed picture that has been colored manually by applying watercolor through stencils, each color requiring a different stencil.

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aquarelle British  

/ ˌækwəˈrɛl /

noun

1. a method of watercolour painting in transparent washes

2. a painting done in this way

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• aquarellist
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• aquarelles
  plural

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Etymology

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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Example Sentences

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aquarelle aquarelles

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

I have seen the work of Hilderbrandt and Werner, and the whole Roman aquarelle club, and assure you yours would make a sensation among them.

From A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Paul Heyse

For here is the quintessence of intellectualized aquarelle, and these touches would surely have brought into being another "Pierrot of the Minute"—a new line drawing out of a period he knew and loved well.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley

He said, "Comme aquarelle je vous promets qu'il n'y en a pas beaucoup qui font comme cela;"—about water colour being infra. dig., showing myself competent in two materials can only raise me.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington

Mention should also be made of Sayitzev, certain of whose stories are comparable to the aquarelles of a landscape painter.

From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Serge Persky

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

Yet when the Nadar collection was dispersed, June, 1909, in Paris, his aquarelles went for a few francs.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker

Somewhat mortified, he turned his attention to his aquarelles, and arranged them in the portfolio which he was still holding in his hand.

From A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Paul Heyse

Then again there is the incident in Naples, which Tischbein has immortalised in one of his aquarelles.

From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders

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