grisaille
grisaille noun: in painting, a method of working which employs only varying values of gray to create form. Often a preliminary step in a fully colored painting.
Noun
grisaille (countable and uncountable, plural grisailles)
- In painting, a method of working which employs only varying values of gray to create form. Often a preliminary step in a fully colored painting.
- Very pertinent relationships between these grisailles of the vegetal type and Islamic transennas have been established by Eva Frodl-Kraft, between that of Obazine with palmettes enchâssées, and a transenna from the Umayyad castle of Qasr-el Heir al Gharbi (about 727-750), today reconstructed at the...1982, Meredith P. Lillich, Studies in Cistercian art and architecture, page 134
- A stained-glass window in this style.
Forms of grisaille
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Origin of grisaille
Unadapted borrowing from French grisaille.
Words that rhyme with grisaille
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- veil
- pale
- avail
- wale
- whale
- bail
- hail
- yale
- bale
- snail
- travail
- brail
- exhale
- frail
- jail
- prevail
- swale
- vail
- wail
- derail
- dwale
- entail
- flail
- Gail
- gayle
- impale
- kale
- quail
- regale
- spale
- thumbnail
- white whale
- ale
- curtail
- drail
- gale
- inhale
- retail
- shale
- tael
- unveil
- ail
- all hail
- assail
- ayel
- beyond the pale
- braille
- cakes and ale
Questions about grisaille
- What does grisaille mean?
- Grisaille means in painting, a method of working which employs only varying values of gray to create form. Often a preliminary step in a fully colored painting.
- What part of speech is grisaille?
- Grisaille is a noun.
- What is the plural of grisaille?
- The plural of grisaille is grisailles.
Words near grisaille in the dictionary
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