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ceruse

[ seer-oos, si-roos ]

noun

  1. a pigment composed of white lead.


ceruse

/ səˈruːs /

noun

  1. another name for white lead
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ceruse1

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin cērussa
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ceruse1

C14: from Old French céruse, from Latin cērussa, perhaps ultimately from Greek kēros wax
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Example Sentences

But art has taught her to supply furrowed deformities with ceruse boxes, and to repair a decayed complexion with an Italian fucus.

You will temper minium and ceruse and carmine with clear of egg.

Spanish green was verdigris, and minium was red lead, while ceruse was white lead.

A pot of ceruse, my child, that I took out of a lady's under petticoat pocket.

Minium sometimes leans to orange; and there is made from ceruse a peculiar red, Mineral Orange.

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