Cremnitz white
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Cremnitz white
1870–75; after German Kremnitz, Slovak Kremnica, town in central Slovakia
Example Sentences
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Freud painted the nude Ms. Tilley asleep on a sofa, her face smushed into the floral-pattern cushion, her belly flopping over her right thigh, her pasty skin cast as streaks of the artist’s favored Cremnitz white.
From New York Times
Some deep cadmium yellow which we ourselves prepared was intimately mixed and ground with an equal quantity by weight of Cremnitz white, and an oil rub of the compound laid upon a tile.
From Project Gutenberg
Cremnitz white is the brightest white that is used in oil: it possesses rather less body than flake white, because the particles are finer.
From Project Gutenberg
The circumambient air Was filled with miscellany, And damaged quite beyond repair Was Cremnitz White Mulvaney!
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