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Tempera   /tˈɛmpərə/   Listen
Tempera

noun
1.
Pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk.  Synonyms: poster color, poster colour, poster paint.





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"Tempera" Quotes from Famous Books



... gables frown Around a humpbacked usurer's, where brown, Neglected in a corner, long it lay, Heaped in a pile of riff-raff, such as—say, Retables done in tempera and old Panels by Wohlgemuth; stiff paintings cold Of martyrs and apostles,—names forgot,— Holbeins and Duerers, say; a haloed lot Of praying saints, madonnas: these, perchance, 'Mid wine-stained purples, mothed; an old romance; A crucifix and rosary; inlaid Arms, Saracen-elaborate; ...
— Poems • Madison Cawein
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