Definition of Flat wash

1. Noun. Ironing that can be done mechanically.

Exact synonyms: Flatwork
Generic synonyms: Ironing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flat Wash

flat rates
flat revertant
flat silver
flat solid
flat space
flat spaces
flat store
flat stores
flat tip screwdriver
flat tire
flat tires
flat top waves
flat tyre
flat tyres
flat wart
flat wash (current term)
flat white
flat whites
flat wrack
flat wracks
flatback
flatbacks
flatbed
flatbed lorry
flatbed press
flatbed truck
flatbeds
flatbill
flatbills
flatblock

Literary usage of Flat wash

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

1. Elements of Mechanical Drawing: Their Application and a Course in Mechanical by Alpha Pierce Jamison (1904)
"flat wash.—A "flat wash" is the term applied to the application of a uniform tint. ... To shade by means of flat tints, lay on a light tint flat wash for a ..."

2. Mechanical Drawing: Technique and Working Methods, for Technical Students by Charles Laban Adams (1908)
"In laying in a narrow stripe (see Plate 20), the wash should be managed as described for a flat wash, but the pool should contain less of the wash. ..."

3. Color Study: A Manual for Teachers and Students by Anson Kent Cross (1895)
"When this is dry place a flat wash of normal blue over the right side, beginning at 6 and extending to 3. While the washes are drying a general review of ..."

4. Cyclopedia of Civil Engineering: A General Reference Work on Surveying by American Technical Society (1916)
"It is usually better to lay a light flat wash or a light graded wash to serve for a ... By a flat wash is meant a wash which is the same tone or color ..."

5. Cyclopedia of Architecture, Carpentry and Building: A General Reference Work by American School, (Chicago, Ill.) (1907)
"It is usually better to lay a light flat wash or a light graded wash to serve for a ... By a flat wash is meant a wash which is the same tone or color ..."

6. Cyclopedia of Drawing by American school of correspondence at Armour institute of technology, Chicago (1906)
"It is usually better to lay a light flat wash or a light graded wash to serve for a ... By a flat wash is meant a wash which is the same tone or color ..."

7. Teachers' Manual for the Prang Course in Drawing for Graded Schools, Books 1-6 by John Spencer Clark, Walter Scott Perry, Hicks Mary D. (1897)
"flat wash. — This term is used to indicate the laying of color evenly over a surface with a brush. This is one of the first exercises in water-color, ..."

8. The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing, Painting, and by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1891)
"... art which goes beyond the firm line and flat wash is debased and degraded art ; that the firm line and flat wash are the high-water mark of painting, ..."

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