Aquarelle
a watercolor.
printing. a printed picture that has been colored manually by applying watercolor through stencils, each color requiring a different stencil.
historical examples
he looked out between whiles at the pleasant english land, an april aquarelle washed in with wondrous breadth.
some short stories henry james
a summer day’s dinner is to the full banquet of mid-winter what a light ‘aquarelle’ is to an oil picture.
luttrell of arran charles james lever
he recognised it instantly from the aquarelle that is in the dining-room at home.
italian letters of a diplomat’s life mary alsop king waddington
aquarelle, ak-wa-rel′, n. water-colour painting, or a painting in water-colours.
chambers’s twentieth century dictionary (part 1 of 4: a-d) various
this aquarelle was purchased for one hundred francs by the society of friends of art.
meissonier
henri barbusse
noun
a method of watercolour painting in transparent washes
a painting done in this way
n.
1855, from french aquarelle (18c.), from italian acquerella “water-color,” diminutive of acqua, from latin aqua “water” (see aqua-).
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