watercolourwatercolorn.

Brit.

/ˈwɔːtəˌkʌlə/, U.S.

/ˈwɔdərˌkələr/,

/ˈwɑdərˌkələr/

Forms: see water n. and colour n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., colour n.¹

Etymology: < water n. + colour n.¹ Compare Middle Low German watervarwe pigment for which water is used as a solvent, Middle High German wazzirvarwe, German Wasserfarbe colour of water, (now usually) pigment for which water is used as a solvent.

1. The colour of water; (pale) blue, greyish-blue. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > grayish blue

persec1387

perse-blue1414

venet colourc1425

watercoloura1450

grey-blue1648

slate-blue1794

a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) (1988) 182 Loke þat..þe mennes clothinge be coloured wiþ vynett colour [L. colore Veneto], þat is water colour.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Coleur d'azur & d'eaue, azure, or water colour, skie colour.

1655 H. Hamand Ourography iv. 21 Vrine shining like silver, of women, betokeneth she is with child..Water-colour with a dark sky betokeneth death.

1799 I. Disraeli Mejnoun & Leila ii. in Romances 23 (note) These bluish grey eyes are those which commonly are of a pale blue, or sometimes of a water-colour.

1836 W. G. Clark Let. Oct. in Lit. Remains (1844) 158 At my feet, there rolled onward what seemed a lake of milk—having about it nothing dark—not even a glimpse of water-color.

1995 T. Clark Like Real People 73 Wan dolls' false indigo, thrown against the cold, Comes out water color, faded blue as souls Laundered and fluttering on a breezy line.

2. A type of artists' paint made with a water-soluble binder and thinned with water rather than oil (frequently in plural). Also as a mass noun: paint of this kind. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.

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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > types of

lac1558

purpurin1558

colourish1598

earth1598

watercolour1598

earth colour1658

encaustic1662

lake1684

virgin tint1706

mosaic gold1746

bronze1753

gold bronze1769

cake colour1784

musive gold1796

sap-colour1816

repaint1827

moist colour1842

bronze powder1846

wax-colour1854

wax pigment1854

bitumen1855

chrome garnet1876

zinc-dust1877

zinc-powder1881

terra nera1882

earth pigment1900

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. i. 80 And neuer yet did insurrection want Such water colors to impaint his cause.

1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art 120 Painting may be performed either with water colours or with oyle colours.

1638 J. Suckling Aglaura ii. 15 The loud talking croud Will thinke it all but water colours Laid on for a time.

1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. vii. 75 Smaller Pictures in Water-colours.

1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 2 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1415 It is all one to me, whether in enamel or in water-colours, provided it is but very like you.

1769 in Philos. Trans. 1768 (Royal Soc.) 58 187 It would be a cheap and usefull water-colour.

1807 A. Grant Lett. from Mountains (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. viii It is for such minds as these to distinguish the durable pencil of truth from the water-colours of fiction.

1817 J. Evans Excursion to Windsor 168 A most beautiful drawing in water colours.

1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. vi. 62 Lucie's..work-table, and box of water-colours.

1903 M. A. Stein Sand-buried Ruins Khotan (1904) xviii. 271 The thin layer of water-colour with which they are painted has suffered much.

1950 P. Larkin Let. 30 July in Sel. Lett. (1992) 166 This evening I painted the sight of the garden from the dining room window in water colours.

1972 A. Bowness Mod. European Art ii. 46 He diluted the paint until it flowed across the canvas as easily as watercolour.

2009 J. Chuter Mind Menu 65 There is a lovely elderly gentleman whom I see every so often sitting by a picturesque part of the canal, painting in water-colours.

3. The art or method of painting with watercolours.In quots. 1598 and 1611 perhaps: fresco-painting (cf. waterwork n. 3).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > watercolour painting

watercolour1598

watercolour painting1689

water1730

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Wash or water colour.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Affrésco A Painters worke called wash or water-colours.

1818 London Lit. Gaz. 20 June 394/3 This gentleman has not abandoned the practice of watercolour, which first gave eclat to his pencil.

1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 93 The more specific study of mountains seems to have coincided with the more dexterous practice of water-colour.

1886 Brit. Architect 4 June 573/2 So far as we understand the art of water-colour, Mr. Pownoll Williams shows its time, purpose and scope in his ‘Gate of the town of Alassis’.

1909 C. Holmes Picture-making 170 In water colour proper the washes of colour are laid directly on the paper, usually over a faint pencil outline.

1947 L. Hellman Another Part of Forest ii. 66 If the war hadn't come, and my Papa had lived, I would have gone to Europe. It was planned for me to study water color.

2006 T. Wynn Where are Prophets? 107 About three weeks ago I began again to sketch and do watercolour.

4. A picture painted with watercolours.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > watercolour painting > picture

watercolour painting1689

watercolour1698

water1730

watercolour drawing1780

watercolouring1788

1698 M. Lister Journey to Paris 92 His Rooms are filled with..Oil Paintings, and Miniatures or Water-Colours.

1773 R. Beatniffe Norfolk Tour (ed. 2) 25 Four Views, Water-Colours.

1854 D. G. Rossetti in Atlantic Monthly (1896) May 589/2 I shall make him a small water-colour in exchange.

1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men II. xxvi. 185 It was a pleasant, sunny room,..nor was it hung with immense pictures of game and fruit, but with light and bright water-colours.

1920 Amer. Woman Aug. (inside front cover) In framing watercolors use a cream mat with the gilt frame and note the gain in richness.

1960 N. Coward Diary 10 July (2000) 443 Gloria no longer sits bashing away at the play she is writing. I no longer paint bad watercolours in peace on the quarterdeck.

2010 D. Sturrock Storyteller ix. 184 He returned..with four signed books and a watercolor by Jim Bodrero of two galloping mules.

Compounds

General attributive.

watercolour cake n. [cake n. 6a]

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1795 Monthly Rev. Jan. 53 Oil-colour cakes..; to be rubbed down in oil, as water-colour cakes are in water.

1839 T. Hood Lit. & Literal 52 Men that deal in water-colour cakes.

1992 M. Baren How it all Began 117/2 The two men utilised the moisture-retaining properties of glycerine to manufacture water-colours in pans that were much simpler and more convenient to use than watercolour cakes.

watercolour drawing n.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > watercolour painting > picture

watercolour painting1689

watercolour1698

water1730

watercolour drawing1780

watercolouring1788

1780 Candid Rev. Exhib. Royal Acad. 28 Water-colour Drawings very pretty and deserve notice.

1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am vii Water-colour drawings on the wall.

1971 R. Genders Collecting Antique Plants viii. 191 Early Parrot tulips are depicted in a water colour drawing about 1700.

2000 M. Thompson in L. Caldwell Art, Creativity, Living x. 144 The nature diary she kept as a child of 11 has the most delicate water-colour drawings.

watercolour exhibition n.

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1811 J. Austen Let. 25 Apr. (1995) 184 Henry has been to the Watercolour Exhibition, which open'd on Monday.

1921 Internat. Studio Oct. 12/2 (heading) Nineteenth annual water colour exhibition.

2012 P. Hann Two Hampshire Families 62 Gordon..was invited to show one of his paintings at a water colour exhibition.

watercolour painting n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > watercolour painting

watercolour1598

watercolour painting1689

water1730

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > watercolour painting > picture

watercolour painting1689

watercolour1698

water1730

watercolour drawing1780

watercolouring1788

1689 Coll. Orig. Drawings & Prints Eminent Masters Eur. (Auction catal.) 4 Five Water-colour Paintings of Birds and Fruit.

1764 F. Gentleman Trip to Moon vii. 143 Water-Colour Painting..requires stronger Strokes than the Oil-soften'd Tints.

1862 W. Sandby Hist. Royal Acad. Arts I. 103 The founder of the English school of water-colour painting.

1987 J. Saltman Mod. Canad. Children's Bks. 37 Children's ingenuous watercolour paintings of life in the Saskatchewan Indian community of La Loche.

2002 P. Long Guide to Rural Wales vii. 274 Her pottery shares the well laid-out display space with..water colour paintings by local artists, jewellery and soft toys.

watercolour sketch n.

ΚΠ

1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing ii. 102 Water-colour sketches performed entirely in seppia, or bistre, or any brown colour.

1996 A. Michaels Fugitive Pieces i. 33 Athos relished that Wilson made watercolour sketches in the most perilous circumstances.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	watercolour
释义	watercolourwatercolorn. Brit. /ˈwɔːtəˌkʌlə/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərˌkələr/, /ˈwɑdərˌkələr/ Forms: see water n. and colour n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., colour n.¹ Etymology: < water n. + colour n.¹ Compare Middle Low German watervarwe pigment for which water is used as a solvent, Middle High German wazzirvarwe, German Wasserfarbe colour of water, (now usually) pigment for which water is used as a solvent. 1. The colour of water; (pale) blue, greyish-blue. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > grayish blue persec1387 perse-blue1414 venet colourc1425 watercoloura1450 grey-blue1648 slate-blue1794 a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) (1988) 182 Loke þat..þe mennes clothinge be coloured wiþ vynett colour [L. colore Veneto], þat is water colour. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Coleur d'azur & d'eaue, azure, or water colour, skie colour. 1655 H. Hamand Ourography iv. 21 Vrine shining like silver, of women, betokeneth she is with child..Water-colour with a dark sky betokeneth death. 1799 I. Disraeli Mejnoun & Leila ii. in Romances 23 (note) These bluish grey eyes are those which commonly are of a pale blue, or sometimes of a water-colour. 1836 W. G. Clark Let. Oct. in Lit. Remains (1844) 158 At my feet, there rolled onward what seemed a lake of milk—having about it nothing dark—not even a glimpse of water-color. 1995 T. Clark Like Real People 73 Wan dolls' false indigo, thrown against the cold, Comes out water color, faded blue as souls Laundered and fluttering on a breezy line. 2. A type of artists' paint made with a water-soluble binder and thinned with water rather than oil (frequently in plural). Also as a mass noun: paint of this kind. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > types of lac1558 purpurin1558 colourish1598 earth1598 watercolour1598 earth colour1658 encaustic1662 lake1684 virgin tint1706 mosaic gold1746 bronze1753 gold bronze1769 cake colour1784 musive gold1796 sap-colour1816 repaint1827 moist colour1842 bronze powder1846 wax-colour1854 wax pigment1854 bitumen1855 chrome garnet1876 zinc-dust1877 zinc-powder1881 terra nera1882 earth pigment1900 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. i. 80 And neuer yet did insurrection want Such water colors to impaint his cause. View more context for this quotation 1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art 120 Painting may be performed either with water colours or with oyle colours. 1638 J. Suckling Aglaura ii. 15 The loud talking croud Will thinke it all but water colours Laid on for a time. 1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. vii. 75 Smaller Pictures in Water-colours. 1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 2 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1415 It is all one to me, whether in enamel or in water-colours, provided it is but very like you. 1769 in Philos. Trans. 1768 (Royal Soc.) 58 187 It would be a cheap and usefull water-colour. 1807 A. Grant Lett. from Mountains (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. viii It is for such minds as these to distinguish the durable pencil of truth from the water-colours of fiction. 1817 J. Evans Excursion to Windsor 168 A most beautiful drawing in water colours. 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. vi. 62 Lucie's..work-table, and box of water-colours. 1903 M. A. Stein Sand-buried Ruins Khotan (1904) xviii. 271 The thin layer of water-colour with which they are painted has suffered much. 1950 P. Larkin Let. 30 July in Sel. Lett. (1992) 166 This evening I painted the sight of the garden from the dining room window in water colours. 1972 A. Bowness Mod. European Art ii. 46 He diluted the paint until it flowed across the canvas as easily as watercolour. 2009 J. Chuter Mind Menu 65 There is a lovely elderly gentleman whom I see every so often sitting by a picturesque part of the canal, painting in water-colours. 3. The art or method of painting with watercolours.In quots. 1598 and 1611 perhaps: fresco-painting (cf. waterwork n. 3). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > watercolour painting watercolour1598 watercolour painting1689 water1730 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Wash or water colour. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Affrésco A Painters worke called wash or water-colours. 1818 London Lit. Gaz. 20 June 394/3 This gentleman has not abandoned the practice of watercolour, which first gave eclat to his pencil. 1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 93 The more specific study of mountains seems to have coincided with the more dexterous practice of water-colour. 1886 Brit. Architect 4 June 573/2 So far as we understand the art of water-colour, Mr. Pownoll Williams shows its time, purpose and scope in his ‘Gate of the town of Alassis’. 1909 C. Holmes Picture-making 170 In water colour proper the washes of colour are laid directly on the paper, usually over a faint pencil outline. 1947 L. Hellman Another Part of Forest ii. 66 If the war hadn't come, and my Papa had lived, I would have gone to Europe. It was planned for me to study water color. 2006 T. Wynn Where are Prophets? 107 About three weeks ago I began again to sketch and do watercolour. 4. A picture painted with watercolours. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > watercolour painting > picture watercolour painting1689 watercolour1698 water1730 watercolour drawing1780 watercolouring1788 1698 M. Lister Journey to Paris 92 His Rooms are filled with..Oil Paintings, and Miniatures or Water-Colours. 1773 R. Beatniffe Norfolk Tour (ed. 2) 25 Four Views, Water-Colours. 1854 D. G. Rossetti in Atlantic Monthly (1896) May 589/2 I shall make him a small water-colour in exchange. 1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men II. xxvi. 185 It was a pleasant, sunny room,..nor was it hung with immense pictures of game and fruit, but with light and bright water-colours. 1920 Amer. Woman Aug. (inside front cover) In framing watercolors use a cream mat with the gilt frame and note the gain in richness. 1960 N. Coward Diary 10 July (2000) 443 Gloria no longer sits bashing away at the play she is writing. I no longer paint bad watercolours in peace on the quarterdeck. 2010 D. Sturrock Storyteller ix. 184 He returned..with four signed books and a watercolor by Jim Bodrero of two galloping mules. Compounds General attributive. watercolour cake n. [cake n. 6a] ΚΠ 1795 Monthly Rev. Jan. 53 Oil-colour cakes..; to be rubbed down in oil, as water-colour cakes are in water. 1839 T. Hood Lit. & Literal 52 Men that deal in water-colour cakes. 1992 M. Baren How it all Began 117/2 The two men utilised the moisture-retaining properties of glycerine to manufacture water-colours in pans that were much simpler and more convenient to use than watercolour cakes. watercolour drawing n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > watercolour painting > picture watercolour painting1689 watercolour1698 water1730 watercolour drawing1780 watercolouring1788 1780 Candid Rev. Exhib. Royal Acad. 28 Water-colour Drawings very pretty and deserve notice. 1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am vii Water-colour drawings on the wall. 1971 R. Genders Collecting Antique Plants viii. 191 Early Parrot tulips are depicted in a water colour drawing about 1700. 2000 M. Thompson in L. Caldwell Art, Creativity, Living x. 144 The nature diary she kept as a child of 11 has the most delicate water-colour drawings. watercolour exhibition n. ΚΠ 1811 J. Austen Let. 25 Apr. (1995) 184 Henry has been to the Watercolour Exhibition, which open'd on Monday. 1921 Internat. Studio Oct. 12/2 (heading) Nineteenth annual water colour exhibition. 2012 P. Hann Two Hampshire Families 62 Gordon..was invited to show one of his paintings at a water colour exhibition. watercolour painting n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > watercolour painting watercolour1598 watercolour painting1689 water1730 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > watercolour painting > picture watercolour painting1689 watercolour1698 water1730 watercolour drawing1780 watercolouring1788 1689 Coll. Orig. Drawings & Prints Eminent Masters Eur. (Auction catal.) 4 Five Water-colour Paintings of Birds and Fruit. 1764 F. Gentleman Trip to Moon vii. 143 Water-Colour Painting..requires stronger Strokes than the Oil-soften'd Tints. 1862 W. Sandby Hist. Royal Acad. Arts I. 103 The founder of the English school of water-colour painting. 1987 J. Saltman Mod. Canad. Children's Bks. 37 Children's ingenuous watercolour paintings of life in the Saskatchewan Indian community of La Loche. 2002 P. Long Guide to Rural Wales vii. 274 Her pottery shares the well laid-out display space with..water colour paintings by local artists, jewellery and soft toys. watercolour sketch n. ΚΠ 1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing ii. 102 Water-colour sketches performed entirely in seppia, or bistre, or any brown colour. 1996 A. Michaels Fugitive Pieces i. 33 Athos relished that Wilson made watercolour sketches in the most perilous circumstances. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). watercolourwatercolorv. Brit. /ˈwɔːtəˌkʌlə/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərˌkələr/, /ˈwɑdərˌkələr/ Forms: see watercolour n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: watercolour n. Etymology: < watercolour n. Compare earlier watercoloured adj. 1 and watercolouring n. transitive and intransitive. To paint with watercolours. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > paint according to medium or technique [verb (intransitive)] > watercolour watercolour1820 1820 Edinburgh: Satirical Novel I. v. 200 She had water-coloured the pannels of her rooms..and emptied all her friends' greenhouses, to adorn her apartments. 1855 D. G. Rossetti Let. 23 Jan. (1965) I. 239 I have been water-colouring again, somewhat against the grain. 1935 A. Huxley Lett. (1969) 393 Are you oiling or water-colouring or gouaching? 1978 P. Bosworth M. Clift ii. 22 There are brownish snapshots of Monty at ‘Seaview’, looking immaculate and very serious as he learns to watercolor. 1996 Esquire Jan. 91/1 Kerrey had watercolored a little William Blake-esque doodle, a landscape. 2009 Guardian (Nexis) 19 Dec. 13 I told them, ‘I'm hardly a terrorist, I'm watercolouring.’ One policeman said, ‘you're not painting the airport, are you?’ I told him I was painting the sugar factory. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1450v.1820
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watercolourwatercolorn.

Compounds

watercolourwatercolorv.