aquarelle

Unadapted borrowing from French aquarelle, from obsolete Italian acquarella (“watercolour”) (later acquarello and acquerello).

aquarelle (plural aquarelles)

1. A watercolour (painting)
   • 1902, Henry James, chapter II, in Flickerbridge‎:

     He looked out between whiles at the pleasant English land, an April aquarelle washed in with wondrous breadth.

   • 1910, George Meredith, chapter VI, in Celt and Saxon‎:

     He wandered about the house, looking into several rooms, and only partially at rest when he discovered Caroline in one, engaged upon some of her aquarelle sketches.

2. A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolour through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour.

• IPA^(key): /a.kwa.ʁɛl/

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• Homophones: aquarellent, aquarelles

From obsolete Italian acquarella, modern acquerello.

aquarelle f (plural aquarelles)

1. aquarelle, watercolour

• aquareller
• aquarelliste

• → English: aquarelle
• → Greek: ακουαρέλα (akouaréla)
• → Russian: акваре́ль (akvarélʹ)
  • → Georgian: აკვარელი (aḳvareli)
  • → Kazakh: акварель (akvarel)
• → Turkish: akvarel

aquarelle

1. inflection of aquareller:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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