lead white

[ led ]

noun

1. a poisonous pigment used in painting, consisting of white lead and characterized chiefly by a fugitive white color, covering power, and tough, flexible film-forming properties.

Example Sentences

Frank Ricci—The lead white plaintiff in the famous New Haven, Connecticut, firefighters case.

From The Daily Beast

With smalt or azure you may make it blue; with white-lead white, and with orpiment yellow.

From Project Gutenberg

Within was a gravel yard, shut in by portentous lead-white house-sides with black window holes.

From Project Gutenberg

Cup of lather and moan moan stone grown corn and lead white and any way culture is power, Culture is power.

From Project Gutenberg