About The Word Pastel
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Pastel
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What's The Definition Of Pastel?
[n] any of various pale or light colors
[adj] delicate and pale in color; "pastel pink" [adj] lacking in body or vigor; "faded pastel charms of the naive music" Synonyms | Synonyms for Pastel: delicate | light | light-colored Related Terms | Find terms related to Pastel: air brush | art paper | black and white | brouillon | brush | camera lucida | camera obscura | canvas | cartoon | chalk | charcoal | charcoal drawing | chiaroscuro | crayon | creamy | delicate | delineation | design | diagram | doodle | draft | drawing | drawing paper | drawing pencil | drier | easel | ebauche | eggshell | esquisse | fair | fixative | flat | gloss | graph | ground | iridescent | lay figure | light | light-colored | light-hued | line drawing | maulstick | medium | mellow | mother-of-pearl | nacreous | opalescent | paint | paintbrush | pale | palette | palette knife | pastel color | patinaed | pearly | pen-and-ink | pencil | pencil drawing | pigments | quiet | rough copy | rough draft | rough outline | sad | scratchboard | semigloss | siccative | silhouette | silver-print drawing | simple | sinopia | sketch | sketchbook | sketchpad | sober | soft | soft color | soft-colored | softened | soft-hued | softness | somber | spatula | spray gun | study | stump | subdued | subtle | subtle color | sweet | tender | tracing | varnish | vignette | whitish See Also | chromatic color | chromatic colour | spectral color | spectral colour Pastel In Webster's Dictionary \Pas"tel\, n. [F.; cf. It. pastello. Cf. {Pastil}.]
1. A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with
gum water. [Sometimes incorrectly written {pastil}.]
``Charming heads in pastel.'' --W. Black.
2. (Bot.) A plant affording a blue dye; the woad ({Isatis
tinctoria}); also, the dye itself.
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