Meaning & use
aquarelle
A painting technique using thin, transparent watercolors, or a painting produced this way.
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The gallery displayed a delicate aquarelle of the harbor at sunrise.
She preferred aquarelle to oil paint for its light, translucent quality.
A note on using this word
Aquarelle is a more formal or artistic term for what is usually just called watercolor in everyday English.
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