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colourwash

colourwash noun: a coloured distemper (paint).

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

Verb

colourwash (third-person singular simple present colourwashes, present participle colourwashing, simple past and past participle colourwashed)

  1. (UK, transitive) To paint with a coloured distemper (paint).

Forms of colourwash

Noun
pluralcolourwashes
alternative formcolorwash
alternative formcolour wash
alternative formcolor wash
Verb
third-person singular presentcolourwashes
present participlecolourwashing
past participlecolourwashed
pastcolourwashed

Origin of colourwash

From colour + wash.

Questions about colourwash

What does colourwash mean?
Colourwash means a coloured distemper (paint).
What part of speech is colourwash?
Colourwash can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of colourwash?
The plural of colourwash is colourwashes.

Words near colourwash in the dictionary

  1. coloursome
  2. colourspace
  3. colourspaces
  4. colourtype
  5. colourtypes
  6. colourwash
  7. colourwashed
  8. colourwashes
  9. colourwashing
  10. colourway
  11. colourways

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