a.
1. Painted or executed in water-colors.
1773. Gentl. Mag., XLIII. 584. A very large and curiously drawn water-coloured chart.
1833. G. Downes, Lett. Cont. Countries, I. 165. His cabinet is hung with twenty water-coloured or opaque drawings.
1863. Miss Braddon, Aurora Floyd, iii. The walls ordinarily covered with French prints and water-coloured sporting-sketches.
2. Of the color of water. rare.
1705. Beverly, Virginia, II. iv. (1722), 112. The other [sort of cherry] … is Water-colour’d within.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), XII. 138. When polished, the fragments [of granite] appear as if set or inlaid in a fine pellucid or water-coloured matter.
