Distemper

(noun.) a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery.

(noun.) a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder.

(noun.) paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder.

(noun.) any of various infectious viral diseases of animals.

(verb.) paint with distemper.

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• I forget what Mr. Denham's distemper was; it held him a long time, and at length carried him off. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• With the advance of summer, and the increase of the distemper, rents were unpaid, and their remittances failed them. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• You'll be walking in your sleep next, my woman, and playing the whole round of your distempered antics. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Why hovered before my distempered vision the mere furniture, while the rooms and the locality were gone? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I panted for enterprises beyond my childish exploits, and formed distempered dreams of future action. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• In Italy they naturally took us for distempered Garibaldians, and set a gunboat to look for any thing significant in our changes of uniform. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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