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ceruse

[ seer-oos, si-roos ]

noun

  1. a pigment composed of white lead.


ceruse

/ ²õəˈ°ù³Üː²õ /

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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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of ceruse1

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin ³ŠÅ§°ù³Ü²õ²õ²¹
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of ceruse1

C14: from Old French ³ŠÃ©°ù³Ü²õ±ð, from Latin ³ŠÅ§°ù³Ü²õ²õ²¹, perhaps ultimately from Greek °ìŧ°ùŽÇ²õ wax
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Male members of the court of Louis XIV in France painted on beauty marks, while Elizabethan Englishmen powdered their faces with ceruse, a toxic mixture of vinegar and white lead.

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This mixture of lead and vinegar that Elizabeth used was known as Venetian ceruse, or the spirits of Saturn.

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The water used in this preparation contains a portion of the calx suspended by the alkali, and being precipitated by an acid, is called ceruse of antimony.

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

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

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