ceruse

[ seer-oos, si-roos ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

ceruse

/ səˈruːs /

Origin of ceruse¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin cērussa

Origin of ceruse¹

C14: from Old French céruse, from Latin cērussa, perhaps ultimately from Greek kēros wax

But art has taught her to supply furrowed deformities with ceruse boxes, and to repair a decayed complexion with an Italian fucus.

You will temper minium and ceruse and carmine with clear of egg.

Spanish green was verdigris, and minium was red lead, while ceruse was white lead.

A pot of ceruse, my child, that I took out of a lady's under petticoat pocket.

Minium sometimes leans to orange; and there is made from ceruse a peculiar red, Mineral Orange.

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