enamel

• 'The colour of a person's teeth changes with age, they become darker as the enamel is worn away and they also become more brittle and likely to chip or break. —  Home | Mail Online
• Allow time for each coat to harden and rub the first coats with haircloth or curled hair, and the last with pulverized pumice and raw linseed oil or crude oil If the wood is soft and an enamel white is desired, the enamel is applied not unlike paint. —  Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2
• In this process the pattern is dug out of the metal and the recess filled with enamel, while in the cheaper cloisonné the pattern is raised on the surface of the metal by welding on strips or wire and filling in with enamel which is fused on to the metal. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
• The result is a black enamel which is then fused into the silver, so that the whole is one surface, and the decoration becomes part of the original plate. —  Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
• When this is not applied the filing does not, by destroying what we term the enamel, diminish the whiteness of the teeth; but the use of betel renders them black if pains be not taken to prevent it. —  The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants

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