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color wash

color wash is the alternative form of colourwash.

Meaning of colourwash

Noun

colourwash (countable and uncountable, plural colourwashes)

  1. (UK) A coloured distemper (paint)
    • Most of Axmouth's old houses, a mixture of colourwash and thatch, natural stone walls and tiled roofs, are grouped around the Church of St Michael with its handsome Norman doorway and medieval wall-paintings.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 42

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Forms of color wash

Noun
pluralcolor washes
Verb
third-person singular presentcolor washes
present participlecolor washing
past participlecolor washed
pastcolor washed

Questions about color wash

What is color wash the alternative form of?
Color wash is the alternative form of colourwash.

Words near color wash in the dictionary

  1. color TV
  2. color TVs
  3. color up
  4. color war
  5. color wars
  6. color wash
  7. color wheel
  8. color wheels
  9. color'd
  10. color-blind
  11. color-blindly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: color wash (page history and authors); colourwash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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