a kind of paint in which the colour is mixed with egg and water; a method of painting that uses this kind of paint 蛋彩画颜料（用颜料与鸡蛋和水调和而成）；蛋彩画法 Oxford Collocations DictionaryTempera is used before these nouns:- paint
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Italian, in the phrase pingere a tempera ‘paint in distemper’.