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ˈwater-ˌcolour
†1. The colour of water, blue, greyish-blue. Obs.
c1425MS. Digby 233 fol. 224/2 Loke þat..þe mennes clothing by coloured with venet colour þat is water coloure. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Coleur d'azur & d'eaue, azure, or water colour, skie colour.
2. A pigment for which water and not oil is used as a solvent. Usually in pl. Also fig.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. i. 80 And neuer yet did Insurrection want Such water-colours, to impaint his cause. 1634J. B[ate] Myst. Nat. 120 Painting may be performed either with water colours or with oyle colours. 1637Suckling Aglaura ii. i, The loud talking crowd Will think it all but water colours Laid on for a time. 1674Grew Anat. Plants, Anat. Trunks (1682) 138 Smaller Pictures in Water-Colours. 1749Chesterfield Let. to Son 2 Oct., It is all one to me, whether in enamel or in water colours, provided it is but very like you. 1765Phil. Trans. LVIII. 187 It would be a cheap and usefull water-colour. 1807A. Grant Lett. fr. Mountains I. (ed. 2) Pref. p. viii, It is for such minds as these to distinguish the durable pencil of truth from the water⁓colours of fiction. 1817J. Evans Excurs. Windsor etc. 168 A most beautiful drawing in water colours. 1859Dickens T. Two Cities ii. vi, Lucie's..work-table and box of water⁓colours. 1903M. A. Stein Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan xviii. (1904) 271 The thin layer of water-colour with which they are painted has suffered much.
3. A picture painted with water-colours.
1854Rossetti in Atlantic Monthly (1896) May 589/2, I shall make him a small water-colour in exchange. 1882Besant All Sorts xxvi. (1898) 183 It was a pleasant sunny room,..nor..was it hung with immense pictures of game and fruit, but with light and bright water-colours. 1899Crockett Kit Kennedy 399 There was Landhaven itself, glittering in the morning light, a water-colour in white and red, as the wet tiles took the sun, and the warmth beneath melted the thin snow.
4. The art or method of painting with water-colours.
1843Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. i. vii. §19 The more specific study of mountains seems to have coincided with the more dexterous practice of water-colour. 1909C. Holmes Picture-making 170 In water colour proper the washes of colour are laid directly on the paper, usually over a faint pencil outline.
5. attrib., as water-colour cake, water-colour drawing, water-colour exhibition, water-colour painting.
1698Froger Voy. 112 A great many fine Water-colour Paintings, that are brought hither from Rome. 1811Jane Austen Let. 25 Apr. (1952) 275 Henry has been to the Watercolour Exhibition, which open'd on Monday. 1824J. Arrowsmith Let. 19 June in J. Constable Corr. (1966) IV. 184, I by this post write to give directions to be sent to me with my watercolour drawings. 1839Hood Literary & Lit. 52 Men that deal in water-colour cakes. 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. iii, A very pretty drawing..which had been in the water-colour exhibition. 1862W. Sandby R. Acad. I. 103 The founder of the English school of water-colour painting. 1876S. Redgrave Catal. Water-Col. Paintings 15 When water colour drawing..emerged from mere Indian ink or other monochrome tint. 1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am vii, Water-colour drawings on the wall.
Hence ˈwater-colour v. intr., to paint with water-colours; water-colouring ppl. a.
1855D. G. Rossetti Let. 23 Jan. (1965) I. 239, I have been water-colouring again, somewhat against the grain. 1928R. Fry Let. 4 Apr. (1972) II. 621 It was a dismal audience of retired colonel water-colourists and their water-colouring daughters. 1935A. Huxley Lett. (1969) 393 Are you oiling or water-colouring or gouaching? |