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aquarelle
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aq·ua·relle  (kw-rl, äkw-)
n.
A drawing done in transparent watercolors.

[French, from obsolete Italian acquarella, water color, diminutive of acqua, water, from Latin aqua; see akw-- in Indo-European roots.]

aqua·rellist n.

aquarelle [ˌækwəˈrɛl]
n
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a method of watercolour painting in transparent washes
2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a painting done in this way
[from French]
aquarellist  n


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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the series "Les Aquarelles de Leningrad," 2003, facsimile prints of eighteenth-century botanical and entomological illustrations have been torn into fragments, then mounted on rough wooden boards and shaken with paint, as along a tectonic fault line.
Delius's Two Aquarelles are beautiful miniatures, string arrangements of the two unaccompanied partsongs - "to be sung of a summer's night on the water".
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