tempera
noun /ˈtempərə/
/ˈtempərə/
[uncountable] (art)- a kind of paint in which the colour is mixed with egg and water; a method of painting that uses this kind of paintTopics Artc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryTempera is used before these nouns:
- paint
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Italian, in the phrase pingere a tempera ‘paint in distemper’.