'Water color' definitions:

Definition of 'Water color'

From: GCIDE
  • Water color \Wa"ter col`or\ (Paint.)
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A picture painted with such colors. [1913 Webster]

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