Cremnitz white

[ krem-nits ]

noun

1. lead white.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Cremnitz white¹

1870–75; after German Kremnitz, Slovak Kremnica, town in central Slovakia

Example Sentences

Freud painted the nude Ms. Tilley asleep on a sofa, her face smushed into the floral-pattern cushion, her belly flopping over her right thigh, her pasty skin cast as streaks of the artist’s favored Cremnitz white.

From New York Times

Some deep cadmium yellow which we ourselves prepared was intimately mixed and ground with an equal quantity by weight of Cremnitz white, and an oil rub of the compound laid upon a tile.

From Project Gutenberg

Cremnitz white is the brightest white that is used in oil: it possesses rather less body than flake white, because the particles are finer.

From Project Gutenberg

The circumambient air Was filled with miscellany, And damaged quite beyond repair Was Cremnitz White Mulvaney!

From Project Gutenberg