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grisailles

grisailles is the plural of grisaille.

Meaning of grisaille

Noun

grisaille (countable and uncountable, plural grisailles)

  1. 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
  2. A stained-glass window in this style.

Questions about grisailles

What is grisailles the plural of?
Grisailles is the plural of grisaille.

Words near grisailles in the dictionary

  1. Griqualanders
  2. griqualandite
  3. Griquas
  4. gris-gris
  5. grisaille
  6. grisailles
  7. Grisales
  8. Grisaleses
  9. grisamber
  10. Grisanti
  11. Grisantis

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