grisaille
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French grisaille.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪl
Noun
grisaille (countable and uncountable, plural grisailles)
- (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.
- 1982, Meredith P. Lillich, Studies in Cistercian art and architecture, page 134:
- 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 National Museum in Damascus, and with a plaque, probably of Syrian origin, reused over a tomb in San Marco in Venice.
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- A stained-glass window in this style.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁi.zaj/
Etymology 1
gris + -aille
Noun
grisaille f (plural grisailles)
- grisaille
- gloom (gloomy weather)
Descendants
- → English: grisaille
- → Italian: grisaglia
- → Portuguese: grisalho
- → Spanish: grisalla
Verb
grisaille
- inflection of grisailler:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “grisaille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French grisaille.
Noun
grisaille f (invariable)
- Alternative form of grisaglia
Anagrams
- sigillare, sigillerà