Body coat

A gentleman's dre -coat. Body Colors, n. pl. ( Paint.) Pigments employed in executing heraldic paintings and illuminated work, in which the color is required to be laid on in such a manner that it may form a thick uniform coating over the paper or vellum on which the outline is traced, utterly devoid of transparency. Body-colors for these purposes are generally sold in the form of powder, and require to be mixed with a little gum-water. They can be made, however, by the mixture of any simple water-color with flake-white or Chinese white; thus, the heraldic azure is obtained by mixing ultramarine or cobalt-blue with either of these pigments. Body-colors prepared in this manner are used by painters to produce brilliant effects in water-color drawings, and form high lights, such as those reflected from armor, which cannot be obtained so clearly by putting on the coloring shade by shade, or by wiping out with rag or chamois-leather.