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Definition of Pastel
1. Noun. Any of various pale or light colors.
2. Adjective. Lacking in body or vigor. "Faded pastel charms of the naive music"
3. Adjective. Delicate and pale in color. "Pastel pink"
Definition of Pastel
1. n. A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water.
Definition of Pastel
1. Noun. Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue and lavender ¹
2. Noun. A drawing made with any of those colors. ¹
3. Noun. A type of dried paste used to make crayons. ¹
4. Noun. A crayon made from such a paste. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pastel
1. a soft, delicate hue [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pastel
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1. A crayon made of a paste composed of a colour ground with gum water. [Sometimes incorrectly written pastil] "Charming heads in pastel."
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pastel
Literary usage of Pastel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"Moreover, the fact of pastel being dry permits the artist to leave his work and
... Applied with knowledge, pastel, which has been likened for delicacy of ..."
2. The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing, Painting, and by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1891)
"pastel. SOME qualities in the Graphic Arts are pleasing or displeasing in ...
On this principle pastel ought to be the most popular of all the forms of ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1892)
"pastel BY MAURICE QUENTIN DE LA TOUR, IN THE LOUVRE, PARIS. sand dollars ...
Universally conceded to be the most important picture in the pastel room of the ..."
4. The Grammar of Painting and Engraving by Charles Blanc (1874)
"pastel Painting. This is a painting with pastes of different colors put on dry,
and soft enough to be powdered under the finger. ..."
5. Elements of the Art of Dyeing: With a Description of the Art of Bleaching by by Claude-Louis Berthollet, Amédée B. Berthollet, Andrew Ure (1824)
"He succeeded by letting the fresh leaves of pastel ferment in a certain quantity of
... The fresh and ripe leaves of pastel afforded 1-70th of fecula. ..."
6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"It is possible to remedy this in part by the use of a fixative: but a pastel
drawing remains the most easily injured oí all works of art. ..."
7. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"by, beyond. pastel: paste, crayon, picture. pastil: candle, lozenge, pastime:
diversion. ... appropriate. gesting the paste of cookery: spec, pastel, dope, ..."
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