absorbent ground

English

Noun

absorbent ground (plural absorbent grounds)

1. (painting) A ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper or watercolours, by which the oil is absorbed and a brilliancy is imparted to the colours.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “absorbent ground”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)