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watercolour

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1. watercolour - Noun

2. watercolour - Adjective

3. watercolour - Verb

Meaning

water-soluble pigment

paint with watercolors

the art or technique of painting with watercolors

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[When asked if he used to go onstage dressed as Jesus with a watercolour beard]. Noel Fielding

Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolours. I loved him in 'Dad's Army,' loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work. Hugh Laurie

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously. Nicolas Roeg

A mid-1830s watercolour portrays New Brunswick lieutenant governor Archibald Campbell and his family with British soldiers on skates playing a stick-on-ice sport. Source: Internet

A watercolour of King Lear and the Fool in the storm from Act III, Scene ii of King Lear Edmund resents his illegitimate status, and plots to dispose of his legitimate older brother Edgar. Source: Internet

Austen-Leigh commissioned a portrait of Austen, based on an earlier watercolour, which softened her image for the Victorian public. Source: Internet

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