Definitions
Soft pale color or artwork made with colored chalk-like sticks.
Word origin
Borrowed from French pastel, from Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”). Doublet of pastegh, pastiglia, pastila, pastilla, and pastille.
Used in a sentence
“Wool was dyed in the pastel vat.”
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