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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tempera /ˈtɛmp(ə)rə/

▶noun a method of painting with pigments dispersed in an emulsion miscible with water, typically egg yolk.

■ emulsion used in tempera.

– origin C19: from Ital., in the phr. pingere a tempera ‘paint in distemper’.

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