gouache
a technique of painting with opaque watercolors prepared with gum.
an opaque color used in painting a gouache.
a work painted using gouache.
Origin of gouache
1Words that may be confused with gouache
- gauche, gouache
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How to use gouache in a sentence
PaceWildenstein showed gouaches by Sol LeWitt, and Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art has landscapes by Hans Hoffman.
The boudoir is the room in which small objects of art—prints, mezzotints and gouaches—show to the best advantage.
The Decoration of Houses | Edith WhartonHe worked a good deal in body colour, and his gouaches have been engraved in colour and in black and white by Janinet and Vidal.
Chats on Old Miniatures | J. J. Foster
British Dictionary definitions for gouache
/ (ɡʊˈɑːʃ) /
Also called: body colour a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white
the paint used in this technique
a painting done by this method
Origin of gouache
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