Definition of "smalt" []

• A deep blue paint and ceramic pigment produced by pulverizing a glass made of silica, potash, and cobalt oxide. (noun)

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• "The "variegated" colored soaps are produced by adding the various colors, such as smalt and vermilion, previously mixed with water, to the soap in a melted state; these colors are but slightly crutched in, hence the streaky appearance or party color of the soap; this kind is also termed "marbled" soap."
• ""smalt" blue forget-me-not with large flowers were abundant, also an oxalis very like our own wood-sorrel."
• "Ground zaffer was also the basis of the painters 'material smalt."