Smalt
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A deep blue pigment made from powdered glass mixed with cobalt oxide. countable, uncountable
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A borrowing from Italian smalto, from Medieval Latin smaltum, from Frankish *smalt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaną (“to melt, smelt”). A doublet of smalto.