flake white

noun

1. lead white.

flake white

noun

1. a pigment made from flakes of white lead

Word History and Origins

Origin of flake white¹

First recorded in 1650–60

Example Sentences

"Petrol's pretty dangerous too, but we've learned how to handle it, and it's a shame that we can't do the same with flake white."

From BBC

Known today as "flake white", it was prized by Old Masters such as Rembrandt because of the steadfastness of its colour and the beautiful contrasts it would bring to their oil portraits.

From BBC

Flake′-white, the purest white-lead for painting, in the form of scales or plates; Flak′iness.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Gummage immediately supplied her with two bristle brushes, and sundry little shallow earthern cups, each containing a modicum of some sort of body colour, masticot, flake white, &c., prepared by himself, and charged at a quarter-dollar apiece, and which he told her she would want when she came to do landscapes and figures.

From Project Gutenberg

The significance of the change from sable to hogs' hair brush and flake white to Kremnitz white in the late 1950s was exaggerated.

From The Guardian