distempered
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9.1
Painted with a traditional water based paint used on walls and furniture
- adjective
- Archaic
:
pintado con témpera
- She admired the distempered finish on the antique furniture in the room.
Examples
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On the distempered walls were pictures.
Fiction book (1995) -
From behind the distempered non-wool poked the collar of a tartan shirt.
Fiction book (1998) -
The old schoolhouse had distempered walls that added character to the building.
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The artist chose a distempered technique to give his mural a unique texture.
Synonyms
painted
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1.0
Covered with a layer of paint
is made using a traditional water based coating for walls and furniture
stained
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2.6
Marked or colored by something that is hard to remove
involves an overall surface coating rather than localized discoloration or marks
whitewashed
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4.2
Covered with a thin white paint used on walls or fences
is applied as a traditional water based coating not limited to white mixtures
coveralled
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7.7
Completely covered in mud, paint or dust
is specifically a traditional water based surface coating not just any covering
How Coated
Surface Forms
distempered positive
Morphology
Etymology
Distempered also comes from the older word distemper, a kind of wall paint made by mixing glue and chalk, with temper meaning 'mix'. So to be distempered can simply mean 'coated with that traditional paint'.