Bister
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noun.
A water-soluble, yellowish-brown pigment.
noun.
A grayish to yellowish brown.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
In
painting
, a brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood.
Of the color of bister; blackish-brown.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
Alternative spelling of
bistre
.
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noun.
a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot
cross-reference
manganese bister
Equivalent
bistre
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
pigment