| 单词 | body colour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbody colour body colour n. Painting colour that has consistency or depth, in distinction to a tint or wash (cf. sense 21a), spec. pigment rendered opaque by the addition of white paint and typically used in a water-based medium; gouache; an example of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > quality of colour body colour1735 1735 J. Barrow Dict. Polygraphicum I. at Colouring As to glaz'd colours, care is to be taken that the under colour be painted strong, and that it be a body colour and laid smooth. a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 215 Employing stiff body colour on a white ground. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 107 The difficulty of calculating when ‘wet’ the difference of tone the body-colour will assume when dry. 1994 Antique Dealer & Collectors Guide Nov. 30/1 The original rules of the Watercolour Society forbade the use of body colour (i.e. admixture of white to produce opaque or oil-like effects) but the precept was..widely ignored by many popular innovators. < as lemmas |
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