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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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

Yellow Colour.—Indigo, white, and lake; or fine Dutch bice and lake, shaded with Indigo; or litmus smalt and bice, the latter predominant.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young

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

The letters were of that exquisite shade known by the artists as smalt blue, edged heavily with gold, and round them a border of yellow, delicate sprays of wheat.

From Gypsy's Cousin Joy by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Green Soap is a mixture of palm oil soap and curd soap, to which is added powdered smalt ground with water.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse