Usually means: Monochrome painting, usually in gray.
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  1. grisaille: Merriam-Webster
  2. grisaille: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grisaille: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grisaille: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grisaille: Vocabulary.com
  6. grisaille: Wordnik
  7. grisaille: Wiktionary
  8. grisaille: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. grisaille: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Grisaille, grisaille: Dictionary.com
  11. Grisaille: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Grisaille: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. grisaille: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. grisaille: Rhymezone
  15. Grisaille: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. Grisaille: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. grisaille: FreeDictionary.org
  18. grisaille: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. grisaille: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. grisaille: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. grisaille: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Grisaille: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grisaille: Encyclopedia

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  1. Stained Glass Windows (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (grisaille)

▸ noun:  (art) In painting, a method of working which employs only varying values of gray to create form. Often a preliminary step in a fully colored painting.
▸ noun:  A stained-glass window in this style.

Similar:
grayscale, glazing, greyscale, greyware, gray, grize, greymap, grayware, gouache, grège, more...

Opposite:
colorful, vibrant, bright, vivid, lively

Types:
monochrome, polychrome, tinted, stained, glazed, enameled, mosaic, relief, more...

Phrases:
grisaille painting, more...

Adjectives:
century, pure, ethereal, geometric, tinted, much, soft, blue, early, old, delicate



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Similar:
grayscale, glazing, greyscale, greyware, gray, grize, greymap, grayware, gouache, grège, more...

Opposite:
colorful, vibrant, bright, vivid, lively

Types:
monochrome, polychrome, tinted, stained, glazed, enameled, mosaic, relief, more...

Phrases:
grisaille painting, more...

Adjectives:
century, pure, ethereal, geometric, tinted, much, soft, blue, early, old, delicate



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