watercolor
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Adjective
[edit]watercolor (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of watercolour.
Noun
[edit]watercolor (countable and uncountable, plural watercolors)
- Alternative spelling of watercolour.
- 1977 December 16, Hilton Kramer, “Art: Requiem For a Heavyweight”, in The New York Times[1]:
- “Champion Victory Wreath No. III,” a watercolor by Richard Yarde in which he applies his inventiveness to the prizefighter Jack Johnson.
- 1988 January 15, Kathryn Hixson, “On Exhibit: a gallery full of flowers”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
- Bonnie Lucas further anthropomorphizes the flower in her watercolors, combining it surreally with the human female figure […]
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[edit]watercolor (third-person singular simple present watercolors, present participle watercoloring, simple past and past participle watercolored)
- Alternative spelling of watercolour.
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