gouache

Unadapted borrowing from French gouache, from Italian guazzo.

• IPA^(key): /ɡwɑːʃ/, /ɡuˈɑːʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːʃ

gouache (countable and uncountable, plural gouaches)

1. (painting) A thick, opaque watercolour paint made with gum containing an inert white pigment to make it opaque.

   Hypernym: watercolour

   Coordinate terms: tempera, oil paint, India ink

2. (painting, countable) A painting made with this paint.

gouache (third-person singular simple present gouaches, present participle gouaching, simple past and past participle gouached)

1. To produce work in the gouache medium.

• gouache on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• couhage

Borrowed from Italian guazzo (“water paint, splash”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡwaʃ/

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gouache f (plural gouaches)

1. gouache

• gouacher

• → Catalan: guaix
• → Danish: gouache
• → Dutch: gouache
• → English: gouache
• → German: Gouache, Guasch
• → Polish: gwasz
• → Portuguese: guache, guacho
• → Spanish: guache
• → Turkish: guaj
• → Ukrainian: гуаш (huaš)

• “gouache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.