Crossword clues for aquarelle
aquarelle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aquarelle \Aq`ua*relle"\, n. [F., fr. Ital acquerello, fr. acqua water, L. aqua.] A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1855, from French aquarelle (18c.), from Italian acquerella "water-color," diminutive of acqua, from Latin aqua "water" (see aqua-).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A watercolour (gloss: painting) 2 A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolor through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour.
Usage examples of "aquarelle".
Troy settled at a table in the saloon, finished her drawing and treated it to a lovely blush of aquarelle crayons which she had bought for fun and because they were easy to carry.
Venetian rose of old brocades and velvets, of weathered, sun-faded aquarelle paintings.
Using ink and aquarelle I can paint a lakescape of unsurpassed translucence with all the mountains of paradise reflected therein, but am unable to draw a boat or a bridge or the silhouette of human panic in the blazing windows of a villa by Plam.
A three-colored velvet violet, of which she had done an aquarelle on the eve, considered him from its fluted crystal.
In a less strenuous mode, his mother painted countless aquarelles for him, as she had since he was an infant, but although he remained emotionally indebted to her melting hues, his own experiments only made the paper warp and curl.
Le Roy Soleil, texte de Gustave Toudouze, aquarelles de Mauriae Leloir.
He dug through his box of perfectly clean paintbrushes and decided on two aquarelle for thin lines and two wash/mops for broad washes.