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Definition of tempera noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

tempera

noun
 
/ˈtempərə/
 
/ˈtempərə/
 [uncountable] (art)
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  1. a kind of paint in which the colour is mixed with egg and water; a method of painting that uses this kind of paintTopics Artc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryTempera is used before these nouns:
    • paint
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    Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Italian, in the phrase pingere a tempera ‘paint in distemper’.
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