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pastel
1[ pa-stel; especially British pas-tl ]
noun
- a color having a soft, subdued shade.
- a kind of dried paste made of pigments ground with chalk and compounded with gum water.
- a chalklike crayon made from such paste.
- the art of drawing with such crayons.
- a drawing so made.
- a short, light prose study or sketch.
adjective
- having a soft, subdued shade.
- drawn with pastels:
a pastel portrait.
pastel
2[ pas-tel ]
noun
- the woad plant.
- the dye made from it.
pastel
/ pæˈstɛl; ˈpæstəl /
noun
- a substance made of ground pigment bound with gum, used for making sticks for drawing
- a crayon of this
- a drawing done in such crayons
- the medium or technique of pastel drawing
- a pale delicate colour
- a light prose work, esp a poetic one
- another name for woad
adjective
- (of a colour) pale; delicate
pastel blue
Derived Forms
- ˈ貹ٱ, noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pastel1
Example Sentences
"Let's say you go around your whole life and you see only pink, baby pink, a pastel pink," he said.
The baby blue, pink, lavender and mint green pastel bags are part of the store’s latest spring drop.
James Roybal, a native of Santa Fe, once signed up for a pastel painting class in the 1980s and when he arrived Hackman was also there.
The cartoon ditches Michael Bay’s greasy hormonal Earthlings to zoom back to the robots’ home planet of Cybertron, gorgeously rendered in the perfectly lighted pastels of an old Soviet sci-fi movie.
Away from the from springtime pastels and prints, Alessandro Michele's debut couture collection was full of clashing colours and harlequin print fit for a court jester.
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