aquarelle
See also: aquarellé
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French aquarelle, from obsolete Italian acquarella (“watercolour”) (later acquarello and acquerello).
Noun edit
aquarelle (plural aquarelles)
- A watercolour (painting)
- 1902, Henry James, chapter II, in Flickerbridge[1]:
- He looked out between whiles at the pleasant English land, an April aquarelle washed in with wondrous breadth.
- 1910, George Meredith, chapter VI, in Celt and Saxon[2]:
- He wandered about the house, looking into several rooms, and only partially at rest when he discovered Caroline in one, engaged upon some of her aquarelle sketches.
- A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolour through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour.
Translations edit
painting — see also watercolour
print
French edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /a.kwa.ʁɛl/
Audio (file) - Homophones: aquarellent, aquarelles
Etymology 1 edit
From obsolete Italian acquarella, modern acquerello.
Noun edit
aquarelle f (plural aquarelles)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: aquarelle
- → Greek: ακουαρέλα (akouaréla)
- → Russian: акваре́ль (akvarélʹ)
- → Turkish: akvarel
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
aquarelle
- inflection of aquareller:
Further reading edit
- “aquarelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.