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Webster 1913 Edition
Water color
Wa′ter colˊor
.(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
. ☞ 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.
2.
A picture painted with such colors.