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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of impaste.

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Examples

  • Another picture was commenced with colors mixed with beer; afterwards solidly impasted and glazed with rich, transparent tints in varnish.

    Letters and Journals 01 Morse, Samuel F B 1914

  • The threat was such an old one that Geraldine honoured it with not the least attention, but helped herself abundantly to marmalade, which she impasted solidly on buttered toast, and consumed with much relish.

    A Life's Morning George Gissing 1880

  • Another picture was commenced with colors mixed with beer; afterwards solidly impasted and glazed with rich, transparent tints in varnish.

    Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. 1831

  • And it should be worked with fine emery and the mould (?) should be of Venus and Jupiter impasted over (?)

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

  • And it should be worked with fine emery and the mould (?) should be of Venus and Jupiter impasted over (?)

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

  • With oil paints applied thickly, Ravi Varma created lustrous, impasted jewellery, brocaded textures, and subtle shades of complexions.

    LearnHub Activities 2009

  • The production of this vibration is by agreement on the part of all great colorists impossible through impasted color or that applied flatly to the surface, which they declare cannot be as powerful, as significant or as beautiful as that which vibrates, either by reason of the juxtaposition of color plainly seen, as with the impressionists, or of its broken tone, or by virtue of the influence of a transparent glaze of color which enables two colors to be seen at once.

    Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899

  • 1501: Bak'd and impasted with the parching streets,

    Hamlet (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

  • 1501: Bak'd and impasted with the parching streets,

    The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (1623 First Folio) 1603

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