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lead glaze

[ led ]

/ lɛd /

noun Ceramics.

a siliceous glaze containing lead oxide as a flux.

Origin of lead glaze

First recorded in 1835–45

Words nearby lead glaze

lead colic, lead dioxide, lead down the garden path, lead encephalopathy, lead glass, lead glaze, lead line, lead monoxide, lead off, lead on, lead one to

Example sentences from the Web for lead glaze

This lead-glaze was soft, but it had a sort of metallic, iridescent lustre, which is one of its peculiarities and beauties.

Pottery and Porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 |Charles Wyllys Elliott