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oil paint

noun

  1. a commercial paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle.


oil paint

noun

  1. paint made of pigment ground in oil, usually linseed oil, used for oil painting
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of oil paint1

First recorded in 1780–90
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Example Sentences

The worthy effort to emphasize that much of the artist’s inventive genius — unfurling in thousands of manuscript pages, rather than oil paint and tempera — makes the dull staging a perhaps unavoidable conceit.

Expect quantum physics and oil paint, AI and video art, climate change and sculpture.

Now, I’m using oil paint on linen, showing my work to a larger audience, and returning a bit to the beauty of imagination.

“Work 73-13” is a large, earthy, monochrome abstraction, its mottled muddy color achieved by pushing brown oil paint through rough jute from behind.

He can only do this with oil paints.

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