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Definition of smalt in English: smaltnoun 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 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: smaltnounsmôltsmɔlt 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 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. |