The Collaborative International Dictionary
Water color
Water color \Wa"ter col`or\ (Paint.)
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A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; -- so called in distinction from oil color.
Note: It preserves its consistency when dried in a solid cake, which is used by rubbing off a portion on a moistened palette. Moist water colors are water colors kept in a semifluid or pasty state in little metal tubes or pans.
A picture painted with such colors.
Usage examples of "water color".
The only architecture course I took at school was in water color painting.
It was water color, as vodka or gin, but its aroma was pure Scotch.
There beneath the water color of the anemones stands my uncut cake with its thirty candles.