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watercolour

(US watercolor)
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Definition of watercolour

noun

[mass noun] (also watercolours)
  • artists' paint made with a water-soluble binder such as gum arabic, and thinned with water rather than oil, giving a transparent colour: a self-portrait in watercolour [count noun]:the technique involved the use of watercolours
  • [count noun] a picture painted with watercolours.
  • the art of painting with watercolours, especially using a technique of producing paler colours by diluting rather than by adding white.

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watercolourist

noun

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