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colourwash

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Colourwash (noun) means a distemper-based paint that has been tinted with colour.

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A distemper-based paint that has been tinted with colour.

"Most of Axmouth's old houses, a mixture of colourwash and thatch, natural stone walls and tiled roofs, are grouped around the Church of St Michael with its handsome Norman doorway and medieval wall-paintings." — AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd (1980)

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