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

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

Ultimately the goods are mill-washed, blued with smalt and dried.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

With mercurous nitrate, the platinocyanide of potassium forms a thick smalt blue, and the platinidcyanide a dark blue precipitate.

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

The best smalt in lumps appears black, yields a blue powder on grinding, becomes paler on further grinding, and may be almost decolourised by continued and excessive grinding.

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

A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; Ð called also blue bice.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah