grisaille

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grisaille

Rhymes with -eɪl

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Unadapted borrowing from French grisaille.

noun grisailles

countable, uncountable 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. Very pertinent relationships between these grisailles of the vegetal type and Islamic transennas have been established by Eva Frodl-Kraft, between that of Obazine with palmettes enchâssées, and a transenna from the Umayyad castle of Qasr-el Heir al Gharbi (about 727-750), today reconstructed at the
countable, uncountable A stained-glass window in this style.

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@misc{grisaille_2026,
  title = {grisaille},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/grisaille},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}