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colourwashes

colourwashes is the plural of colourwash.

colourwashes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Questions about colourwashes

What is colourwashes the plural of?
Colourwashes is the plural of colourwash.

Words near colourwashes in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colourwashes (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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