smalt

American  

[smawlt] / smɔlt /

noun

1. a coloring agent made of blue glass produced by fusing silica, potassium carbonate, and cobalt oxide, used in powdered form to add color to vitreous materials.

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smalt British  

/ smɔːlt /

noun

1. a type of silica glass coloured deep blue with cobalt oxide

2. a pigment made by crushing this glass, used in colouring enamels

3. the blue colour of this pigment

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Etymology

Origin of smalt

1550–60; < Middle French < Italian smalto smalto

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Example Sentences

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smalt

“As for me, I will grab even this smalt chance to get a decent man in the palace,” said Auntie.

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple

The dark velvet-purple-looking spot seen in geraniums is obtained from mixing the cake smalt with a little bright crimson powder.

From The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling by Emma Peachey

Oxide of Cobalt, CoO. in the oxidizing flame.Colors the glass of an intense smalt blue both whilst hot and when cold.

From A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations by Anonymous

Perhaps you will do that—on a smalt ground, with a gold Persian arabesque round, and impossible flowers twined in and out of the letters; but, remember it!—pardon!

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida

In the twelfth century the celebrated Suger of St. Denis decorated one of the porches of his church with mosaic, in smalt, marbles, and gold; animal and human forms were introduced in the ornament.

From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

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