Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A deep blue paint and ceramic pigment produced by pulverizing a glass made of silica, potash, and cobalt oxide.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Common glass tinged of a fine deep blue by the protoxid of cobalt. When reduced to an impalpable powder it is employed as a pigment in painting, and in printing upon earthenware, and to give a blue tint to writing-paper, linen, etc. Also called enamel-blue, Eschel blue, royal blue.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A deep blue pigment or coloring material used in various arts. It is a vitreous substance made of cobalt, potash, and calcined quartz fused, and reduced to a powder.
Etymologies
- French, from Italian smalto, enamel, glaze, of Germanic origin; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The "variegated" colored soaps are produced by adding the various colors, such as smalt and vermilion, previously mixed with water, to the soap in a melted state; these colors are but slightly crutched in, hence the streaky appearance or party color of the soap; this kind is also termed "marbled" soap.”
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
“smalt" blue forget-me-not with large flowers were abundant, also an oxalis very like our own wood-sorrel.”
“Ground zaffer was also the basis of the painters 'material smalt.”
“Less-fine smalt was acceptable for coarse painting or industrial purposes.”
“For eighteenth-century painters, the mineral origins suggested that smalt would be an especially stable color.”
“Here, quality of the coloring material was determined by the degree of fineness to which the smalt was ground.”
“For about two centuries before that determination, cobalt was prepared in Europe, converted to zaffer to make blue-colored glass and blue enamel, and from zaffer to smalt for painting.”
“This was true in general, but smalt was known to discolor in oil media unless used with small amounts of white lead and, like any coloring material, if poorly made or inexpertly used, it lost color over time.”
“From left to right at top, there are seven colors, all pure reference (i.e., unmixed), ranging from Spanish white through deeper blue colors — smalt and indigo — to atramentum siricum, a dark blue-black.”
“Colors grouped under smalt include hyacinth, sea green, leek color, ingrain purple, paonaceus, and iron gray.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘smalt’.
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Uncommon Colours
azure, myrtle, periwinkle, viridian, jade, emerald, lime, chartreuse, asparagus, celadon, harlequin, olive and 147 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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Archaic Colours
Words for colours that have fallen out of use.
aeneous, croceate, cretaceous, cramoisy, corbeau, coquelicot, coccineous, claret, cinerious, chrysochlorous, chlorochrous, cesious and 128 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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color (blue)
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
( visual, colors, blue, descriptive, randomness )Blue, Sapphire, Turquoise, Aqua, Cobalt, Royal, Navy, Pavonated/Peacock, Azure, Egg, Water, Sea and 177 more...
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deep sleep
sleep tight, sleep like a top, sopor, coulee, imbuement, yerba santa, inveteracy, filaree, bathos, spindrift, crash, puri and 14 more...
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blue
bluejeans, blue sky, blue angel, blue heaven, blue jay, blue cheese, blue ridge, blue ribbon, blue print, blue rinse, bluestocking, blue shift and 50 more...
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Relating To: The Sky
Words of, about, or relating to the heavens.
firmament, horizon, celestial, pleiades, supernal, welkin, cerulean, hypaethral, abatjour, upaithric, canopus, cerulific and 40 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
tatterdemalion, panopticon, idioglossia, hypnagogue, hypnopomp, defenestration, anacoluthon, scofflaw, affront, edifying, palimpsest, naufrage and 475 more...
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Colors
Words for colors, including things so associated with a color that they can be used in reference to a color.
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, purple, navy, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse and 218 more...
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Brilliant Colour Names
Colours with exciting, fascinating for interesting names.
chartreuse, nyanza, puce, Amaranth, smalt, Urobilin, vermilion
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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Colors
cerise, carnelian, florid, claret, watchet, rosaceous, coquelicot, vermilion, celadon, nacreous, lapis, viridescent and 132 more...
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colo(u)red world
Taste the rainbow.
amaranth, burgundy, carmine, celadon, cerulean, chartreuse, cinnabar, gamboge, harlequin, heliotrope, malachite, ochre and 10 more...
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naming the rainbow
rose madder, china white, sepia, incarnadine, lily white, cerulean, crimson, ivory, celadon, mocha, gunmetal gray, lazuline and 86 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for smalt.
reesetee Colored glass, often deep blue. Smalts are finely ground to use as colorants for glass and enamel. Nov 9, 2007