oil color
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- noun
- /ɔɪl ˈkoʊlər/
- US
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óleo
- palette of oil colors
- layer of oil color
- thick layers of oil color
Examples
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But then you got into oil colors, - and it sort of reversed on itself.
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About five years ago, other brands started making other oil colors and called them Indian Yellow; they never knew of the original color that artists loved, so they made it all different hues and threw them against the wall to see which would stick.
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And so the technique of Strategio was really developed before reversible paints, when we were retouching with oil colors and maybe removing them wasn't possible.
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The artist used bright oil color to bring the landscape to life.
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For her next portrait, she decided to blend different shades of oil color to achieve the perfect tone.
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He prefers working with oil color rather than acrylics because of its rich texture.
Synonyms
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A paint or dye used to give something a particular shade
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Paint made by mixing color with a fat that dries slowly, used by artists
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A type of paint that has color mixed in oil and dries slowly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a paint made with oil' is directly and transparently composed from 'oil' (the medium) + 'color' (paint/material), forming a simple material-type noun. This is a literal, cross-linguistically common compositional pattern (e.g., equivalents like 'óleo'/'color al óleo'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents should readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Oil color gets its name from how artists make the paint: they mix color, the pigment, with oil, making a rich, oily paint that stays wet longer. That's why oil color means a kind of 'paint' made by mixing pigment with oil.