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colorwash

colorwash 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 colorwash

Noun
pluralcolorwashes
Verb
third-person singular presentcolorwashes
present participlecolorwashing
past participlecolorwashed
pastcolorwashed

Questions about colorwash

What is colorwash the alternative form of?
Colorwash is the alternative form of colourwash.

Words near colorwash in the dictionary

  1. colorspaces
  2. colortype
  3. colortypes
  4. colorum
  5. colorums
  6. colorwash
  7. colorwashed
  8. colorwashes
  9. colorwashing
  10. colorway
  11. colorways

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colorwash (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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