water color

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water color - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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     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.
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     2. A picture painted with such colors.
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