colourwash

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noun

A coloured distemper (paint)

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Meanings

nouncolourwash (countable and uncountable, plural colourwashes)

plural colourwashes · alternative colorwash · alternative colour wash · alternative color wash

  1. UKcountableuncountableA coloured distemper (paint)

    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.

    1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 42
verbcolourwash (third-person singular simple present colourwashes, present participle colourwashing, simple past and past participle colourwashed)

present singular third person colourwashes · participle present colourwashing · participle past colourwashed · past colourwashed · alternative colorwash · alternative colour wash · alternative color wash

  1. UKtransitiveTo paint with a coloured distemper (paint).

Origin

From colour + wash.

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APA

colourwash. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colourwash

MLA

“colourwash.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colourwash. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “colourwash,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colourwash.

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