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Meanings of watercolors in English

Russian
акварельная краска
Portuguese
aquarela
Catalan
aquarel·la
Spanish
color al agua

Material consisting of pigment suspended in water to form a transparent painting medium.

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акварельная краска
Usage of watercolors in English
1
Tells about acquisition of these watercolors & when some were previously displayed.
The new yorker
2
Everything smeared as she moved, like the world was painted in watercolors.
The poison eaters: and other stories
3
Young ladies sketched, did watercolors, wrote short paragraphs of imaginative prose.
Go Set a Watchman
4
In addition, there are fifty-seven drawings and watercolors and thirty-nine sculptures.
The new yorker
5
A Londoner named Robert Havell, an engraver, sharpened the clarity of the watercolors.
The new yorker
6
He packed his best brushes, his watercolors, and a block of good paper.
Michelangelo's Shoulder
7
She did papiermache with them, and sculpture in clay, pottery, watercolors and drawings.
Accident
8
It is not surprising that he seized upon Ricci's opaque watercolors.
John Baptist Jackson: 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut
9
At the moment, however, she rather wished her cousin had taken up watercolors instead.
Destined to last
10
Gold-framed oils and watercolors, some fairly good, plastered one wall.
Alas, Babylon
11
He began with watercolors but quickly went on to oils.
The new yorker
12
In the next five years, he painted his five hundred watercolors of wild flowers.
The new yorker
13
It was one of Sander's many small watercolors of Anvegad.
Anvil Gate
14
I spent most of my time reading and painting watercolors.
Girl, Interrupted
15
She made watercolors and collages all her life -mostly as gifts for friends.
The new yorker
16
The oval mirror was still there, too, and so was Molly's box of watercolors.
Death Mask
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Portuguese
aquarela
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