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stove enamel

British

noun

a type of enamel made heatproof by treatment in a stove

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So did the imagery of the visitors' PX: the white gleam of refrigerators and stove enamel, the iconography of GE and Hoover, so utterly different from the traditional dimness of the Japanese house and the mandatory drabness of wartime, with its austerity colors and nocturnal blackout.

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