watercolor
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
wa·ter·col·or
/ ˈwôtərˌkələr; ˈwä-/
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n. (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.
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a picture painted with watercolors.
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the art of painting with watercolors, esp. using a technique of producing paler colors by diluting rather than by adding white.
DERIVATIVES: wa·ter·col·or·ist n.
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