colourwash

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From colour +‎ wash.

Noun

colourwash (countable and uncountable, plural colourwashes)

  1. (British spelling) A coloured distemper (paint)
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 42:
      Most of Axmouth's old houses, a mixture of colourwash and thatch, natural stone walls and tiled roofs, are grouped around the Church of St Michael with its handsome Norman doorway and medieval wall-paintings.

Verb

colourwash (third-person singular simple present colourwashes, present participle colourwashing, simple past and past participle colourwashed)

  1. (British spelling, transitive) To paint with a coloured distemper (paint).

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