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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A deep blue paint and ceramic pigment produced by pulverizing a glass made of silica, potash, and cobalt oxide.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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

  1. n. a deep blue pigment made from powdered glass mixed with cobalt oxide

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 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

  1. 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)

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  • reesetee Colored glass, often deep blue. Smalts are finely ground to use as colorants for glass and enamel. Nov 9, 2007

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