flake white

American  

noun

1. lead white.

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flake white British  

noun

1. a pigment made from flakes of white lead

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Etymology

Origin of flake white

First recorded in 1650–60

Example Sentences

"Petrol's pretty dangerous too, but we've learned how to handle it, and it's a shame that we can't do the same with flake white."

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2014

Known today as "flake white", it was prized by Old Masters such as Rembrandt because of the steadfastness of its colour and the beautiful contrasts it would bring to their oil portraits.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2014

The significance of the change from sable to hogs' hair brush and flake white to Kremnitz white in the late 1950s was exaggerated.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2011

But when the prodigal at last returns, Lord Coco is quite another bird, and in a moment of rapture he secretes our last tube of flake white in the water-jug!

From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Goodman, Walter

It is brought from Paris in the form of drops, is exquisitely white, but of less body than flake white, and has all the properties of the best white leads.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas