pastel
pastel Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Of a soft and delicate shade of color.
"The nursery walls were painted in a soothing pastel blue."
• noun
A soft and delicate shade of a color, characterized by high value and low saturation.
"Spring fashion lines often feature light pastels such as lavender, mint green, and peach."
A crayon or stick of art medium made of powdered pigments bound with gum or resin, used for drawing and coloring.
"The art student bought a box of oil pastels to practice blending vibrant textures on heavy paper."
A work of art, or the artistic technique of drawing, executed with pastel crayons.
"Edgar Degas produced many famous pastels depicting ballet dancers in rehearsal."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the mid-17th century from French pastel, from Italian pastello, a diminutive of Late Latin pasta ('paste'), referring to the way powdered pigments were ground with gum and water into a paste and rolled into crayons.