smaltsn.
/smɔːlts/, /smɒlts/, U.S. /smɔlts/, /smɑlts/ Now historical.
= smalt n. 1a.
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azurec1374
lapis lazulia1425
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smalt1558
smalts1591
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starch blue1742
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Berlin blue1794
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Antwerp blue1795
French blue1802
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Waterloo blue1815
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cobalt1835
Thénard's blue1837
iron blue1839
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permanent blue1863
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Haarlem blue1885
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cerulean blue1889
Victoria blue1890
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Prussian1911
Windsor blue1912
gentianine1927
Monastral1936
Alcian Blue1947
1591 J. Hester tr. J. Du Chesne Breefe Aunswere Expos. I. Aubertus f. 52v This [sc. salt peter] serueth also to the making of glasse and smaltes.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. vi. 57 Pasture would be put into a deeper Greene made of the mixture of Azure and Smalts with Pincke.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vii. xxxiv. 49 With Blew Smalts strew very thick the Border while it is wet.
1739 W. Markham Gen. Introd. Trade & Business (ed. 2) vii. 294 Smalts, or Powder-Blue, in Casks.
1806 W. Henry Epitome Chem. (ed. 4) i. xviii. 248 The substance termed smalts, used as a colouring substance.
1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 54 The calx of Cobalt has the property, that it can be melted into a blue glass, called smalts.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 82/2 The principal use of smalts is for bluing paper.
1917 Painters Mag. Apr. 232/1 Smalts originally was colored glass, but the smalts used now is fine sand, colored with paint and dried by a special process.
1992 J. M. Price Perry of London iii. 44 The industrial tools and raw materials, including 40 dozen wool-cards.., smalts (a dye) and other colors and coloring.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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