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单词 smalt
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Definition of smalt in English:

smalt

noun smɒltsmɔːltsmɔlt
mass nounhistorical
  • 1Glass coloured blue with cobalt oxide.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • By that time also artificial blues had been discovered, smalt or cobalt blue which is cobalt aluminate in the 17th century, and then the famous Prussian blue, in 1704.
    • Where the horizontal elements of the paneling collected the most smalt, there is an almost neon glow to the blue.
    • The rich green against the blue smalt should make Warner's bedchamber look even more dramatic.
    • One pertinent example was an advertisement in the New-York Gazette in 1748 for blue smalt, just in from London.
    • The blue colour of smalt derives from the addition of cobalt oxide to a potash glass melt during manufacture.
    1. 1.1 A pigment made by pulverizing smalt glass.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • By the time of the last one-foot band, the painters were working together to try several methods at once, aiming for a maximum of smalt.
      • He took a sample about one-half-inch square that went right down to the bare wood for perusal in the laboratory and discovered that what we had was smalt.
      • Eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century texts on smalt were also unhelpful, generally failing to describe how to apply it to large vertical surfaces.
      • They applied the mauve paint as evenly as possible, so that the thickness of the paint would not affect the amount of smalt it held.
      • In the meantime, the only room that we know of here or in England completely treated with smalt is the Warner House's parlor bedchamber.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French, from Italian smalto, of Germanic origin; related to smelt1.

Rhymes

assault, Balt, exalt, fault, halt, malt, salt, vault
 
 

Definition of smalt in US English:

smalt

nounsmôltsmɔlt
historical
  • 1Glass colored blue with cobalt oxide.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The blue colour of smalt derives from the addition of cobalt oxide to a potash glass melt during manufacture.
    • By that time also artificial blues had been discovered, smalt or cobalt blue which is cobalt aluminate in the 17th century, and then the famous Prussian blue, in 1704.
    • The rich green against the blue smalt should make Warner's bedchamber look even more dramatic.
    • Where the horizontal elements of the paneling collected the most smalt, there is an almost neon glow to the blue.
    • One pertinent example was an advertisement in the New-York Gazette in 1748 for blue smalt, just in from London.
    1. 1.1 A pigment made by pulverizing smalt glass.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He took a sample about one-half-inch square that went right down to the bare wood for perusal in the laboratory and discovered that what we had was smalt.
      • In the meantime, the only room that we know of here or in England completely treated with smalt is the Warner House's parlor bedchamber.
      • They applied the mauve paint as evenly as possible, so that the thickness of the paint would not affect the amount of smalt it held.
      • Eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century texts on smalt were also unhelpful, generally failing to describe how to apply it to large vertical surfaces.
      • By the time of the last one-foot band, the painters were working together to try several methods at once, aiming for a maximum of smalt.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French, from Italian smalto, of Germanic origin; related to smelt.

 
 
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