oil colouroil colorn.
/ˈɔɪl ˌkʌlə/, U.S. /ˈɔɪl ˌkələr/ A paint made by mixing a pigment with a drying oil such as linseed oil; = oil n.1 3a, oil paint n. at oil n.1 Compounds 5. Chiefly in plural.
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oil colour1498
oila1536
oil paint1759
cake colour1784
colour cake1794
moist colour1842
powder colour1862
tube-colour1881
tempera1883
powder paint1911
poster colour1925
finger paint1935
poster paint1939
1498 Edinb. Hammermen f. 24v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Oil-cullour Gevin for payntin of the candilheidis..to lay thaim with ole cullouris.
1539 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. 298* Painting of hir mastis, salis, and airis, with oley colouris.
a1586 R. Maitland Hist. House of Seytoun (1829) 35 With dyuers hewis of oylie colouris.
1602 Kyd's Spanish Trag. (new ed.) iii. sig. H3v I'de haue you paint me..In your oile colours matted.
1659 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 309 They were all painted over in oyl-colours this yeare (1659).
1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 349 Draw upon these marked Lines with Oyl Colours.
1797 R. Tyler Algerine Captive I. ix . 89 I presented him a large picture of his grand father, painted with oil colours on canvass.
1829 W. M. Thackeray Let. 22 Nov. (1945) I. 107 I was walking home with a great tin box of oil colors under my arm.
1885 J. S. Taylor Field's Chromatogr. Modernized 160 Mummy varies exceedingly in its composition and properties... It is only used as an oil-colour.
1938 Amer. Home Jan. 59/2 In spite of the fact that the picture may have been painted with oil colors, some of the colors are likely to mix with water..and rub off.
1994 Pop. Crafts Oct. 62/2 If you need to re-work the crackle glaze, first remove the oil colour from the cracks with white spirit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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