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Encaustic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A paint consisting of pigment mixed with beeswax and fixed with heat after its application.

n. The art of painting with this substance.

n. A painting produced with the use of this substance.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. a wax-based paint that is fixed in place by heating

n. a painting produced using this paint

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Prepared by means of heat; burned in.

n. The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Pertaining to the art of painting with pigments in which wax enters as a vehicle, or to a painting so executed.

In ceramics, an arbitrary name given by Josiah Wedgwood to his attempted imitation of the painted decoration of Greek vases, the effort being to produce fired colors without the gloss of enamel.

n. The art, method, or practice of encaustic painting.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application

Word Usage

"The Greek characters traced on the backs of certain encaustic tiles found in the ruins of a building erected by Rameses III. at Tell el-Yahudieh may well be the work of some of these prisoners of war."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

paint pigment

Cross Reference

encaustic tile encaustic vase encaustic painting

Form

encaustic tile encaustic painting

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