Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pastel

Pastel , noun

[French; compare Italian pastello. Compare Pastil.]

1.
A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water.
Charming heads in pastel. — W. Black
2.
(Botany) A plant affording a blue dye; the woad (Isatis tinctoria); also, the dye itself.