demi-tintn.
Painting. ? Obsolete.
A half tint; a tint intermediate between the extreme lights and strong shades of a painting; applied also to broken tints or tertiary colour-shades.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > half-tint
mezzotint1738
demi-tint1753
demi-tone1812
1753 Gray's-Inn Jrnl. No. 59 The Touch, which so skilfully blends different Colours..is called by the Painters the Demi-tint.
1798 Trans. Soc. Arts 16 287 Those demi-tints which conduce so much to the brilliancy of a picture.
1820 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting II. v. 59 He does not sufficiently connect with breadth of demi-tint the two extremes of his masses.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 146 They have none of the demi-tints to study.
Derivatives
ˈdemi-tinted adj.
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the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > softly coloured
under-coloured1777
demi-tinted1828
pastel-tinted1922
pastel-coloured1932
1828 Examiner 1 June 357 Cream-coloured and demitinted city and mid-distance.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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