pastel
(adjective) delicate and pale in color; āpastel pinkā
pastel
(adjective) lacking in body or vigor; āfaded pastel charms of the naive musicā
pastel
(noun) any of various pale or light colors
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pastel (countable and uncountable, plural pastels)
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.
A crayon made from such a paste.
Woad.
pastel (plural pasteles)
A traditional dish in various Latin American countries, resembling a tamale, pasty, or calzone.
• leptas, palest, palets, peltas, petals, plates, pleats, septal, staple, tepals
Source: Wiktionary
Pas"tel, n. Etym: [F.; cf. It. pastello. Cf. Pastil.]
1. A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water. [Sometimes incorrectly written pastil.] "Charming heads in pastel." W. Black.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: A plant affording a blue dye; the woad (Isatis tinctoria); also, the dye itself.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; āinventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobilesā
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
