orpiment
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of orpiment
1350–1400; Middle English < Old French < Latin auripigmentum pigment of gold; see auri- 1, pigment
Example Sentences
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He thought of himself as a reformer—manufacturing fresh reds, greens, and yellows to replace older, toxic pigments like cinnabar and orpiment.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018
I stuck my head inside a cabinet to get a close look at the rocks of the arsenic sulfides realgar and orpiment, blazes of flame orange locked within the crystals.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018
Then José Arcadio Buendía threw three doubloons into a pan and fused them with copper filings, orpiment, brimstone, and lead.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Being cheaper than formerly, vermilion is not so much adulterated as it once was; although, even now, brickdust, orpiment, &c. sometimes sophisticate it.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
Chrysocolla, or azure, or verdigris, or orpiment, or realgar, when they are found, are counted among the good indications.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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