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pastel
/pæsˈtɛl/
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What does pastel mean?
noun
- Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender.
- A drawing made with any of those colors.
- A type of dried paste used to make crayons.
More meanings (4)
noun
- A crayon made from such a paste.
- Woad.
- A traditional dish in various Latin American countries and in Indonesia, resembling a tamale, pasty, or calzone.
- A Filipino stew made with vegetables, sausages, and chicken or other meat in a creamy sauce.
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IPA pronunciation
/pæsˈtɛl/
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Beyond the phantom lake lay the line of many-colored hills; rich, sun-baked yellow, glowing turquoise, lavender, purple; all the open, pastel colors of the desert.
“She has had an education—très-supérieure! Nothing was spared. Lessons in pastel at ten francs the lesson, lessons in oil at twelve francs. I didn’t look at the francs then. She’s an artiste, eh?”
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One of the seventy-three shops is a "Metaphysical Library", having broad windows, and walls in pastel tints, and pretty vases with pink flowers, and pretty gray wicker chairs in which the reader will please to be seated, while we probe the mysteries of an activity widely spread throughout America, called "New Thought."