pastel

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Related topics: Visual, Colours, Painting and drawing

pas·tel1 /ˈpæstl $ pæˈstel/ noun

a) [countableC, uncountableU]AV a small coloured stick for drawing pictures with, made of a substance like chalk 彩色粉笔[蜡笔]

b) [countableC]AV a picture drawn with pastels 彩色粉笔画；蜡笔画

2 [countableC usually plural]CC a light colour such as pale blue or pink 淡而柔和的色彩〔如淡蓝色或粉红色〕

a room beautifully furnished in soft pastels

以柔和色彩装饰的漂亮房间

Examples from the Corpus

pastel• Of these, Guitar has the largest range with 60 pastels.• a pastel portrait• White, cream, and pastels suit me better than dark colours.• The undulations in Rough or Not paper allow the dusty pastel more surface area to grip to.• Hey, there are even pastels like peach and lilac this season, so nobody has to be a wallflower.• The area becomes a study in pastels.• For the first time, she did not show sculpture, just pastels and watercolors.• When he discovered oil pastels however, there was no turning back.• The acid-sweet pastels of 1950s' food photography come to mind.• Graphic animal prints usually work better with strong colors than pastels.

Related topics: Colours, Visual, Painting and drawing

pastel2 adjectiveadj [only before noun]

1 CCpastel colours are light and pale 〔色彩〕浅的，淡的，柔和的

pastel blue

淡蓝色

The walls were painted in pastel shades.

墙壁被粉刷成了柔和的色彩。

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2 AVdrawn using pastels 用彩色粉笔画的；用蜡笔画的

a set of four small pastel drawings

一套四幅小蜡笔画

Examples from the Corpus

pastel• Before the baby was born Jenny bought some pretty, pastel baby clothes.• I saw Peter wearing a pastel blue cotton sweater, sheer and delicate-a very fine sweater.• Sensiq's lovely pastel colours reflect the sunny feeling and identify your ideal skin products according to skin type.• Mrs Singh preferred saris in pastel colours, such as salmon pink.• the child's pastel drawing• But every day we see more pastel patches of red, purple, yellow, and pale green of swelling buds.• Harding a pastel portrait of Lance Henly.• Humble houses were cobbled together from leavings stuccoed over and painted in pastel tones of pink, ochre and yellow.• It's light and bright inside due to the pastel yellow inner.

Origin pastel1

(1500-1600) French Italian pastello, from Late Latin pasta; → PASTE1

pas·tel1 nounpastel2 adjectiveadj

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