colourwash

English

Etymology

From colour +‎ wash.

Noun

colourwash (uncountable)

1. (British spelling) A coloured distemper (paint)
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 42:

     Most of Axmouth's old houses, a mixture of colourwash and thatch, natural stone walls and tiled roofs, are grouped around the Church of St Michael with its handsome Norman doorway and medieval wall-paintings.

Alternative forms

• colorwash
• colour wash

Related terms

• whitewash

References

• “colourwash”, in Collins English Dictionary.