verdaille
verdaille noun: a method of painting or other work which employs only varying shades of green, or work executed with this method.
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Noun
verdaille (countable and uncountable, plural verdailles)
- A method of painting or other work which employs only varying shades of green, or work executed with this method.
- Unless the work of a skilled imitator, Pillement also executed an oil painting in monochromatic shades of olive green, called “Verdaille”, featuring a smaller procession of figures riding on elephants.2006, Maria Gordon-Smith, Pillement, page 51
- Verdaille is a painting created entirely in green. Unlike other colourwork, in which a single hue is either tinted in lighter tones or shaded into darker tones, verdaille can involve many different hues.2012 June 27, Sheila Singhal, “Elephant No. 269: Verdaille”, in An Elephant a Day
Forms of verdaille
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Origin of verdaille
Compare French vert (“green”), as well as English grisaille or brunaille, from French.
Questions about verdaille
- What does verdaille mean?
- Verdaille means a method of painting or other work which employs only varying shades of green, or work executed with this method.
- What part of speech is verdaille?
- Verdaille is a noun.
- What is the plural of verdaille?
- The plural of verdaille is verdailles.
Words near verdaille in the dictionary
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