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▪ I. matt, a.|mæt|
Also 7, 9– matte, 9 mat.
[a. F. mat: see mate a.]
Of colours, surfaces: Without lustre, dull, ‘dead’.
a1648Digby Closet Open. (1677) 215 Smooth like silver between polished and matte. 1864Reader 26 Nov. 675/1 The traces are made with diamond points on mat-black paper. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 170/1 Water gilding..is finished either ‘matt’ or burnished... Matt-work is protected with one or two coats of finish-size. 1887Sci. Amer. 7 May 297/2 Most kinds of varnish that will dry ‘bright’ under ordinary circumstances will become ‘matt’ if subjected to a chill. 1890Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 14, I like a landscape photograph, if not too small, better on plain paper—as we call a mat surface print, than on a glazed surface. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 76 The metal separates in a matt grey form. 1896Godey's Mag. Apr. 448/2 Others are of mat Roman gold. 1897[see glossy a. a]. 1909Chamber's Jrnl. Oct. 684/1 Taken altogether, it cannot compare with the ‘matte’ appearance of the flatted enamel which is so extensively used in French decoration. 1925Morris Owner's Manual 79 The operation is finished when the valve face has a clean, even, matt-surfaced ring around it. 1933Archit. Rev. LXXIII. 265 To treat plastic materials without humbug so as to bring out their..pleasant matt texture. 1944L. MacNeice Springboard 32 The matt-grey iron ship, Which ought to have been the Future. 1953,1958[see egg-shell c]. 1967E. Chambers Photolitho-Offset iii. 27 Some smooth, semi-matt prints give fair results, but, in general, sepia tone prints, matt-surface prints and hand-coloured prints should be avoided. 1969Sears Catal. Spring/Summer 6 Uniquely styled in matte-finished vinyl. 1973Sci. Amer. Oct. 128/1 For those who wish a definite opaque matte appearance, talc is cut to a third, and rice starch or particularly fine precipitated chalk is added to improve absorption.
▪ II. matt
variant of mat, mate a. |