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pastel

[pa-stel, pas-tl] / pæˈstɛl, ˈpæs tl /
ADJECTIVE
muted in color
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In 2012, Black paid $120 million for one of his favorite pieces, an Edvard Munch pastel of “The Scream,” which he sees as the opening salvo in the art world’s Modernist movement.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

Growing venture capital–backed consumer brands, like Blank Street Coffee and dentist office Tend, traded in neons for pastel greens.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

Elsewhere in Haute Couture Week, Puerto Rican music star Bad Bunny sat front row for the Schiaparelli show in a pastel yellow-coloured suit and a tie of plaited golden strands.

From Barron's Jul. 6, 2026

Daisy’s husband Matt, for one, feels torn about the spoopiness that retailers foreground with their shelves of pastel pumpkins and rainbow-hued ghosts, and not just because of the aesthetics.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2026

There were a few old men in pastel suits, limping, I think, on purpose.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds




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