distemper

[ US /dɪˈstɛmpɝ/ ]
[ UK /dɪstˈɛmpɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
  2. an angry and disagreeable mood
  3. a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
  4. a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
  5. any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
VERB
  1. paint with distemper
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How To Use distemper In A Sentence

  • Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
  • This paper will mainly illustrate the advance in pathological mechanism of demyelinating canine distemper encephalitis.
  • The walls were painted with a water-based powder distemper, usually in grass green or primrose colour.
  • Kamikaze died of distemper at a young age, and in 1939 Keller received one of his older brothers as a replacement.
  • Giotto painted upon wood, and in "distemper" -- the mixture of colour with egg or some other jelly-like substance. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People
  • The main cause for the decline of foxes on Santa Catalina Island is the rapid spread of canine distemper, which is transmitted by dogs.
  • The first thing that we shall do is to state, and which we shall prove in evidence, that this vice of bribery was the ancient, radical, endemical, and ruinous distemper of the Company's affairs in India, from the time of their first establishment there. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
  • Come a ‘chaste art festival’, then the distemper art rules the roost in major spots.
  • Dogs require vaccinations against distemper, hepatitis, leptospirosis, parainfluenza and parvovirus, and throughout their lives need periodical deworming, daily exercise and proper nutrition.
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