Crossword clues for pastel
pastel
- Delicate hue
- Sidewalk artist's medium
- Subdued shade
- Subdued hue
- Delicate color
- Baby blue, e.g
- Washed-out shade
- Spectral colour
- Salmon, for one
- Pale pink, for one
- Pale pink, e.g
- Muted, as colors
- Muted color choice
- Degas medium, often
- 1980s shade
- Summery shade
- Staple (anag)
- Soft, light color
- Soft colour
- Shade that's not hot
- Powdery crayon
- Medium for Mary Cassatt
- Many a Matisse
- Easter tone
- Degas's "La Toilette," for one
- Crayon used in art
- Crayon kin
- Crayon — gentle shade of colour
- Color that's soft and subdued
- Chalky crayon
- Artist's soft-colored crayon
- Artist's chalklike crayon
- Anagram for "staple"
- An anagram for "staple"
- "Paint ___ Princess" Silverchair
- Drawing that's easy on the eyes
- Many a Degas portrait
- Soft shade
- Bedroom hue
- Cassatt medium
- Subdued color
- Aqua, e.g.
- Lavender or lilac
- Any of various pale or light colors
- A medium for Degas
- Type of drawing
- Chalklike crayon
- Pale shade
- Short prose sketch
- An anagram for staple
- Artist's medium
- Pale pink, e.g.
- The woad plant
- Short, light prose work
- Delicate; light
- Light literary sketch
- A medium used by Degas
- Soft color like pink or baby blue
- Pale color
- Crayon left beside stick
- Soft shade initially put around some troubling electric lamp
- Soft shade; crayon
- Faint praise the old regularly ignored
- Drawing up as telephone rings
- Delicate shade of fine glass on top of lamp
- Delicate and pale in colour
- Type of crayon
- Light color
- Light shade
- Soft hue
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pastel \Pas"tel\, n. [F.; cf. It. pastello. Cf. Pastil.]
A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water. [Sometimes incorrectly written pastil.] ``Charming heads in pastel.''
--W. Black.(Bot.) A plant affording a blue dye; the woad ( Isatis tinctoria); also, the dye itself.
a drawing using pastel, or of a pastel shade.
the art or process of drawing with pastels.
any of various light or pale colors.
a light literary work, as a sketch.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "crayons, chalk-like pigment used in crayons," from French pastel "crayon," from Italian pastello "a pastel," literally "material reduced to a paste," from Late Latin pastellus "dye from the leaves of the woad plant," diminutive of pasta (see pasta). Meaning "pale or light color" (like that of pastels) first recorded 1899. As an adjective from 1884.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue and lavender 2 A drawing made with any of those colors. 3 A type of dried paste used to make crayons. 4 A crayon made from such a paste.
WordNet
adj. lacking in body or vigor; "faded pastel charms of the naive music"
delicate and pale in color; "pastel pink"
n. any of various pale or light colors
Wikipedia
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Toshihiko Kobayashi. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine, then moved to Magazine Special in 2003. From chapter 50 and onwards, it is in monthly magazine format. It was published in the United States by Del Rey Manga. The story follows a similar plot to Kobayashi's earlier work Parallel.
A pastel ( UK: ; US: ) is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation. The color effect of pastels is closer to the natural dry pigments than that of any other process.
Pastels have been used by artists since the Renaissance, and gained considerable popularity in the 18th century, when a number of notable artists made pastel their primary medium.
An artwork made using pastels is called a pastel (or a pastel drawing or pastel painting). Pastel used as a verb means to produce an artwork with pastels; as an adjective it means pale in color.
Pastel is the art medium.
Pastel may also refer to:
- Pastel (color), color family
- Pastel (food), pastries
- Pastel (manga), comic
- Pastel (programming language) extended version of Pascal
- Pastel (Twinbee), fictional character in video game
- Pastel Accounting, South African accounting software
Pastel is the name given to different typical dishes of many countries of Hispanic or Portuguese origin.
Pastels or pastel colors are the family of colors which, when described in the HSV color space, have high value and low to intermediate saturation. The name comes from pastels, art media characteristic of this color family. The colors of this family are usually described as "soothing", "soft", "near neutral", "milky", "washed out", "desaturated", and lacking strong chromatic content.
Pastel is an extended version of the Pascal programming language, created in c. 1982 for Amber, an operating system for the S-1 supercomputer project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Pastel was conceived by Jeffrey M. Broughton, then Project Engineer in charge of compilers and operating system software for the S-1 project, because of dissatisfaction with the PL/1 language in which Amber was being implemented. The language was named Pastel ("an off-color Pascal") and was the inspiration for Richard Stallman's GNU C compiler. Compared with Pascal compilers of that period, Pastel's features included:
- Improved type definition
- Parametric types
- Explicit packing and allocation control
- Additional parameter passing modes
- Additional control constructs
- Set iteration
- Loop-exit form
- Return statement
- Module definition
- Exception handling
- General enhancements
- Conditional boolean operations
- Constant expressions
- Variable initialization
Usage examples of "pastel".
A dozen times a day Miss Mallow or her mother was forced to admire his pastel blobs, reading into them character, beauty, sentiment, and all else they lacked.
But having been put up back during an era of overdesign, it proved to be sturdier than it looked, with its old stucco eaten at to reveal generations of paint jobs in different beach-town pastels, corroded by salt and petrochemical fogs that flowed in the summers onshore up the sand slopes, on up past Sepulveda, often across the then undeveloped fields, to wrap the San Diego Freeway too.
PR operatives, hangers-on and sub-celebrities Robert Culp and Vince Van Patten were perhaps the most dazzling stars in this pastel galaxy listened to the speeches, applauded zestlessly, and returned to their lite beers and tea-time vodka-tonics.
The soupy pastel clouds became a turmoil of glowing bruises, making the bloated world look like a piece of rotting fruit.
Linen parasols sprouted like pastel mushrooms from the boats, and there was a sprinkling of what were obviously townspeople on the dock, standing as we were, looking expectantly across the harbor.
Little Adele and huge Mira were both up and full, flooding the black-and-white checkerwork marble with pale blue light, turning the giant vases filled with oleander and jessamine and bougainvillea into a pastel wonderland.
Far above me, feathered cirrus and rippled cirrocumulus caught the twilight in a pastel riot of soft pinks, rose glows, violet tinges, and golden backlighting.
Miss Primrose was sitting bolt upright in a straight backed old fashioned chair, against a background of fine old tapestries, faded to the softest loveliest pastel tints -- as incongruous with her grotesque ugliness as had been the fresh prettiness of the Crabapple Blossoms.
His view slit swung past the dark Temple of Cupay and the long stretch of terraced homes, their pastel hues fitfully lit by the dying flames in the Graveyard.
Laylah in a small room at the top of the stairs, sitting in a wooden crib from the fifties, the pre-Consumer Safety kind with wooden slats and toxic decoupages of pastel animals with lunatic grins and silky eyelashes.
Birthday, the frequently-used black microwave that can be found in most college dorms, a counter with bread crumbs, cheese bits, and cola stains, a sink of dirty plastic dishes, two pastel green love-seats, and one square wooden coffee-table that also serves as a foot-stool.
Backson lived in Hermosa Beach, a pastel place that existed only to charge people for parking when they went to the beach.
There are reproductions of pastels by Virginia Lee, bronzes by Roxanne Swentzell, fabric work by Huichol and Tepehuano artists, photographs by Viggo Mortensen, silkscreens by Mayumi Oda, and so much more.
Suspended in a sea of milky white, the light of his life lay unmoving beneath a thin layer of eggshell sheets and pastel blankets, her hair haloed behind her head which was gently cradled by an oversized, hypoallergenic pillow.
Remembering that someone had mentioned the possibility of adding a wing to Administration, he turned idly to look at the colorful rendering of the whole Meadows Center, done in pastels from an aerial photograph taken for a magazine article.