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Answer for the clue "Tone down a painter's medium ", 7 letters:
tempera

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Word definitions for tempera in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk [syn: poster paint , poster color , poster colour ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tempera is a painting medium. Tempera may also refer to: MT Tempera , a Finnish oil tanker Tempera (horse) , an American Thoroughbred racehorse

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tempera \Tem"pe*ra\, n. [It.] (Paint.) A mode or process of painting; distemper. Note: The term is applied especially to early Italian painting, common vehicles of which were yolk of egg, yolk and white of egg mixed together, the white juice of the fig ...

Usage examples of tempera.

He painted in oil, tempera, and for glass, and is supposed to have gained his brilliant colors by using a gilt ground.

The panels were done in tempera with figures in light colors upon gold grounds.

He painted a most moving picture of a greathearted, pleasure-loving, tempera- mental man, suddenly overtaken by a passion for a lovely young girl, conscience-stricken, yet unable to resist.

She watched the way his muscles moved beneath his skin as he matched Racer's gait with a gentle up-and-down and she felt a glow of warmth that was not from the tempera- .