oil colour

1. 1.

   oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist

   Synonymsoiloil color

   Broaderoil paint

Questions about oil colour

What does oil colour mean?

oil colour means "oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist".

What is another word for oil colour?

Close synonyms include oil, oil color. 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 oil colour a common word?

oil colour 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.