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watercolor

Syllabification: (wa·ter·col·or)

(British watercolour)
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Definition of watercolor

noun

(also watercolors)
  • artists' paint made with a water-soluble binder such as gum arabic, and thinned with water rather than oil, giving a transparent color.
  • a picture painted with watercolors.
  • the art of painting with watercolors, especially using a technique of producing paler colors by diluting rather than by adding white.

Derivatives

watercolorist

noun

watercolor in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of watercolor in the British & World English dictionary