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Definition of Colour wash
1. Noun. A wash of whitewash or other water-base paint tinted with a colored pigment.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colour Wash
Literary usage of Colour wash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin by Laurence Binyon (1902)
"Pen and burnt sienna, with water-colour wash ; 7 x ... with Indian - ink ana
water - colour wash ; roy., 9| x 7§ in. Purchased August, 1871. ..."
2. Students' Text-book of Color, Or, Modern Chromatics, with Applications to by Ogden Nicholas Rood (1881)
"It was soon ascertained that the hue of the water-colour wash was considerably
more saturated or intense than a tint of equal luminosity produced by the ..."
3. Advanced Hygiene for the Advanced Examination of the Board of Education by Alfred Edward Ikin, Robert Arthur Lyster (1902)
"When dry the plaster may be coated with colour-wash, lime-wash, paint, or paper.
Paint is much better than the washes and can be cleaned, but it is more ..."
4. The Cantonese Made Easy Vocabulary: A Small Dictionary in English and by James Dyer Ball (1908)
"... substances to which thej give a colour are when applied as in No.
1), ^Щ -fj^, {ngan «hik,. A better colour than you, Ц| ehui kwo "noi. Colour-wash, п. ..."
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