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lead white
[ led ]
/ lɛd /
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noun
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.
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Also called Cremnitz white, flake white.
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How to use lead white in a sentence
Frank Ricci—The lead white plaintiff in the famous New Haven, Connecticut, firefighters case.
With smalt or azure you may make it blue; with white-lead white, and with orpiment yellow.
Within was a gravel yard, shut in by portentous lead-white house-sides with black window holes.
Romance|Joseph Conrad and F.M. HuefferCup of lather and moan moan stone grown corn and lead white and any way culture is power, Culture is power.
Geography and Plays|Gertrude Stein