oil paint

oil color.

a commercial paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle.

Origin of oil paint

First recorded in 1780–90

What would I not give for a little bucket of oil-paint, only common lampblack!

Farthest North |Fridtjof Nansen
During its existence it has had, first one coat of oil-paint, and later a coat of coloured limewash.

Cottage Building in Cob, Pis, Chalk and Clay |Clough Williams-Ellis
It is a sad quality of oil-paint that when it is dry it no longer looks so lovely and shiny as it looks when it is wet.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 12, 1920 |Various
He bought a quantity of oil-paint, which he found excellent, and displayed a decided talent for the art.

Debit and Credit |Gustav Freytag

Oil-Paint can be removed, by rubbing it with very pure spirits of turpentine.

A Treatise on Domestic Economy |Catherine Esther Beecher