1. pigment - Noun
2. pigment - Verb
Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.
Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.
Wine flavored with species and honey.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary. Charles de Lint
I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors. Billy Eckstine
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. Boy George
He read about humanity's age-old racial struggles. Had it really been less than half a millennium since humans contrived gigantic, fatuous lies about each other simply because of pigment shades, and killed millions because they believed their own lies? David Brin
[ Impressionism was] the beginning of a cult devoted to the material on the canvas – the actual pigment.. Marcel Duchamp
[L]ook at yourself right now... hoping to lose yourself-your home, your certainties, the borders and boundaries of your life-by means of a bundle of wood pulp, sewn and glued and stained with blobs of pigment and resin. People with Books. Michael Chabon