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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tempera
noun
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▪ Areas of bright stucco work have been found over the first layer of tempera.
▪ As the varnish dries, so the egg tempera closes up into a perfectly fine line.
▪ Soft haired brushes are mostly used for watercolour or tempera painting, with bristle mainly for oils.
▪ The money is for fitting out a laboratory dealing with tempera paintings.
▪ Turns out tempera contains enticing egg yolk.
▪ Walls and ceilings were marble faced or decorated with paintings in fresco, tempera or caustic medium.
▪ Why not lay in the line of tempera, holding the brush against a straight edge, such as a ruler.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tempera

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 tree, and the like.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tempera

also tempra, 1832, from Italian tempera (in phrase pingere a tempera), back-formation from temperare "to mix colors, temper," from Latin temperare "to mix in due proportion" (see temper (v.)).

Wiktionary
tempera

n. A medium used to bind pigments in painting, as well as the associated artistic techniques.

WordNet
tempera

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

Wikipedia
Tempera

Tempera , also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium (usually a glutinous material such as egg yolk or some other size). Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium. Tempera paintings are very long lasting, and examples from the 1st centuries AD still exist. Egg tempera was a primary method of painting until after 1500 when it was superseded by the invention of oil painting. A paint consisting of pigment and glue size commonly used in the United States as poster paint is also often referred to as "tempera paint," although the binders and sizes in this paint are different from traditional tempera paint.

Tempera (horse)

Tempera (March 12, 1999 – April 28, 2002) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

Tempera (disambiguation)

Tempera is a painting medium.

Tempera may also refer to:

  • MT Tempera, a Finnish oil tanker
  • Tempera (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse

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- .