Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
alum-stone . - noun The solid residue obtained from potash crystals on their liquefaction by heat and subsequent cooling.
- noun A factitious article made by coloring small crystalline fragments of alum with Venetian red.
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Examples
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I went to Marcoline, and while she was putting on her disguise I wrote on a sheet of white paper, in large and odd - looking letters, the following sentences, using, instead of ink, rock-alum:
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I went to Marcoline, and while she was putting on her disguise I wrote on a sheet of white paper, in large and odd-looking letters, the following sentences, using, instead of ink, rock-alum:
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 21: South of France Giacomo Casanova 1761
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I went to Marcoline, and while she was putting on her disguise I wrote on a sheet of white paper, in large and odd-looking letters, the following sentences, using, instead of ink, rock-alum:
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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