| 单词 | yellow orpiment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow orpiment 1. More fully yellow orpiment. Arsenic trisulphide, As2S3, a bright yellow mineral of the monoclinic system which occurs naturally as prismatic crystals or massive deposits and was formerly used as a dye or artist's pigment. Also called yellow arsenic and (as a pigment) king's yellow.Orpiment is the original arsenic (ancient Greek ἀρσενικόν). Cf. arsenic n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > orpiment arsenica1393 orpimentc1395 auripigmenta1398 orpine1548 golden earth1555 zarnich1612 the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > pigments yelloweOE motey1353 arsenica1393 orpimentc1395 auripigmenta1398 ochre1440 pink1464 massicot1472 yellow ochre1482 orpine1548 painter's gold1591 spruce1668 giallolino1728 king's yellow1738 Naples yellow1738 stil de grain1769 yellow earth1794 queen's yellow1806 chromate1819 chrome yellow1819 Oxford ochre1827 Indian yellow1831 Italian pink1835 Montpellier yellow1835 Turner1835 quercitron lake1837 jaune brillant1851 zinc chromate1851 zinc sulphide1851 brush-gold1861 zooxanthin1868 Oxford chrome1875 aureolin1879 cadmium yellow1879 Cassel yellow1882 Neapolitan yellow1891 zinc chrome1892 Mars1899 jaune jonquille1910 c1395 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale 823 The firste spirit quyk siluer called is, The seconde orpyment. a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 12 (MED) Auripigmentum, orpiment, quando simpliciter de citrino intelligitur. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. bv Powdre of orpement blowen uppon an hawke. 1545 Rates Custome House sig. cj Orpmente the C. pounde x.s. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. xvi. f. 115/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I We haue in england gret plenty of quick Syluer, Antimony, Sulphur, black Lead, and Orpiment red and yealow. 1617 in J. Imrie & J. G. Dunbar Accts. Masters of Wks. (1982) II. 78 Orpament. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 90 Arsenick red and yellow, that is, Orpement and Sandarach may perhaps doe something. View more context for this quotation 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 331 Orpment, Pinck, Yellow Oaker, for Yellow. 1777 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 393 The other colours I tried were orpiment, gamboge,..and a few others. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xvi. 140 A thin plate of native yellow orpiment absorbs the violet and refrangible blue rays very powerfully. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 341 There is a green bice prepared by mixing some yellow orpiment with smalt. 1969 R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford Art of Codex Amiatinus 3 The third leaf, a purple-stained folio with text written in yellow orpiment (not gold), carried on its recto and verso respectively a prologue and a table of contents. 1998 D. Hare Judas Kiss ii. 74 Wilde: The sun was not like topaz. No. Nor was it the colour of saffron. I can only say to you..that the sun was like orpiment. < as lemmas |
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