Definition of Color wash

1. Noun. A wash of whitewash or other water-base paint tinted with a colored pigment.

Exact synonyms: Colour Wash
Generic synonyms: Wash

Lexicographical Neighbors of Color Wash

color of law
color pop
color property
color scheme
color sergeant
color space
color spectrum
color television
color television system
color television tube
color triangle
color tube
color up
color vision
color vision deficiency
color wash (current term)
color wheel
colorability
colorable
colorably
coloradillo
coloradoite
colorant
colorants
colorate
coloration
colorations
colorative
coloratura
coloratura soprano

Literary usage of Color wash

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody; an Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase, William Wesley Cook (1920)
"Be sure to make color wash enough at one time, or you will find it hard to get the shades alike; saving a little of the whitewash without color, ..."

2. A Laboratory Study of Household Chemistry by Mary Ethel Jones (1921)
"Does the color wash out? Dry the strip and mount it in your notebook. 2. Mordant a piece of cotton cloth by boiling it in 20 cc. of aluminum sulfate ..."

3. Native Americans by Karen Lowther (2003)
"Students should leave plenty of white space for the color wash in Step 4. 3. Cover the worktable with a ... This will give the picture a color wash look. 5. ..."

4. Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping by Estelle Woods Wilcox (1877)
"In renovating black alpaca that has become rusty, dissolve the logwood only, as nothing is needed to set the color. Wash the goods well in suds, rinse, ..."

5. The Journal of Home Economics by American Home Economics Association (1915)
"Either method will extract color. Wash in cold water, then follow with soap. Mucus as found on handkerchiefs may be soaked in salt and water, then washed in ..."

6. Camera (1907)
"Black Tones: Immerse in a diluted solution of ammonia (three drops to one ounce water) until the image has a lilac color. Wash well and put in solution of ..."

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