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ˈwater-ˌcoloured, a.
1. Painted or executed in water-colours.
1773Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 584 A very large and curiously drawn water-coloured chart. 1832G. Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 165 His cabinet is hung with twenty water-coloured or opaque drawings. 1863M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd iii, The walls ordinarily covered with French prints and water-coloured sporting-sketches.
2. Of the colour of water. rare.
1705Beverly Virginia ii. iv. (1722) 112 The other [sort of cherry]..is Water-colour'd within. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 138 When polished, the fragments [of granite] appear as if set or inlaid in a fine pellucid or water-coloured matter. a1941V. Woolf Haunted House (1943) 91 Water⁓coloured rings set in pearls. |