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colour wash

colour 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 colour wash

Noun
pluralcolour washes
Verb
third-person singular presentcolour washes
present participlecolour washing
past participlecolour washed
pastcolour washed

Questions about colour wash

What is colour wash the alternative form of?
Colour wash is the alternative form of colourwash.

Words near colour wash in the dictionary

  1. colour triangle
  2. colour triangles
  3. colour TV
  4. colour TVs
  5. colour up
  6. colour wash
  7. colour wheel
  8. colour wheels
  9. colour'd
  10. colour-blind
  11. colour-blindness

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