Windsor green
- noun
- Specialized
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verde Windsor
- She mixed Windsor green with yellow to achieve a lighter tone for her landscape painting.
Examples
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The artist chose Windsor green for the leaves to create a vivid, natural look.
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A tube of Windsor green lasted him through several projects in the studio.
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The artist used Windsor green for the leaves.
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I love the shade of Windsor green.
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The artist chose Windsor green to bring vibrancy to her painting of a lush forest.
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She mixed Windsor green with other colors to create a beautiful palette for her artwork.
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A tube of Windsor green is essential for any painter wanting to achieve bright, natural shades.
Synonyms
A bright green color made by mixing yellow and blue used in paint and ink
A bright green color with a slight yellow tint
Green paint that artists make by mixing blue and yellow
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
Windsor + green
The noun is formed by a proper-name modifier plus the color 'green', so a learner who knows 'Windsor' as a name and 'green' as a color will readily infer it denotes a particular shade or type of green. Technical details about the pigment (e.g. containing chrome) are specialized, but the basic meaning 'a kind of green' is transparently compositional.
Etymology
The color Windsor green may come from a paint maker's name. One popular story says painters bought a bright green tube from a maker named Windsor, so the name now means the 'bright, light green' used in painting.