flatwash
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A style of painting in which shapes are completely filled with a solid color and have no outlines.
Uncountable
adj
Pertaining to the methods or products of flatwash.
Example Sentences
- "And yet this group is absolutely monochrome and, as all the cattle in it are painted in ocher flatwash, one actually finds no echo at all of the symbolism that has for so long been mentioned by various authors."
- "The entrance to the block—a double door with frosted-glass panels—opened into a wide rectangular foyer flatwashed in cream."
- "Here he found a number of engravings some of which were enlivened with a certain amount of flatwash colour, mostly ochre."
- "Attempts to show the essential curves of the animals are well known in both engraving and painting, except for the simple outlines and some of the early flatwash paintings."
- "Sample BPF 3152 was found in the same layer as BPF 3190, and it displays traces of a flatwash figure (complete infill with no outline)."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *flataz Old Norse flatrbor. Middle English flat English flat Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *wodsḱéti Proto-Germanic *waskaną Proto-West Germanic *waskan Old English wascan Middle English wasshen English wash English flatwash From flat + wash.