color wash

1. 1.

   a wash of whitewash or other water-base paint tinted with a colored pigment

   Synonymscolour wash

   Broaderwash

Questions about color wash

What does color wash mean?

color wash means "a wash of whitewash or other water-base paint tinted with a colored pigment".

What is another word for color wash?

Close synonyms include colour wash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is color wash a common word?

color wash is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.