Sentence example with the word 'bistre'

bistre

Definition n. a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot

Last update: July 3, 2015


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It contains four eggs, white, abruptly speckled over with dark bistre mingled with some ashy spots.   [Please select]

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Washed in bistre, or India ink.   [Please select]

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His drawings are generally in pen outline, with a wash of bistre, or other warm colour; sometimes he makes use of black and red chalk; they are seldom finished with colours, but have often portions rendered lighter and broader by means of a wash of white.   [Please select]

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The ground-colour is grey, with a tinge of green, and it is thickly covered with small spots of bistre.   [Please select]

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