| 单词 | pastel |
| 释义 | pastel (once / 7247 pages) nadj A pastel is a soft, pale color. If your favorite shades are light blue and pale pink, you can say that you prefer pastels. Pastel is also an adjective describing a soft color, like a pastel shade of green or a pastel lavender dress. Another kind of pastel is the artist's crayon made of powdered pigments bound together in a solid stick, which produce soft, blended colors. Starting in the late 1800s, pastel was used to mean "soft shade" as well as "soft art medium." In French, pastel means "crayon." WORD FAMILYpastel: pastel-colored, pastelly, pastels USAGE EXAMPLESThe city’s streets are endlessly entertaining: pastel facades, open windows revealing domestic scenes, and almost no cars. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) Many of the island's 60,000 residents live in limestone cottages painted in pastel colours of a design familiar from British towns or villages. BBC(Dec 22, 2016) Perched on a cliff overlooking the Pacific, the pastel pink Los Flamingos is one of Acapulco’s oldest and best-known establishments. The Guardian(Dec 13, 2016) 1n any of various pale or light colors Hyper chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour a color that has hue 2adj delicate and pale in color pastel pink Syn light, light-colored (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent 3adj lacking in body or vigor faded pastel charms of the naive music Syn delicate exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury |
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