Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Paint.) The laying on of colors to produce impasto.

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  • verb Present participle of impaste.

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Examples

  • This did not prevent him, though, from elsewhere chaffing the adepts of the open-air school, whom he accused of impasting with a kitchen ladle.

    His Masterpiece ��mile Zola 1871

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