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water color
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water color,
- 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]" 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] - A picture painted with such colors. [1913 Webster]
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