colourishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

colourish (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A substance used in gilding to brighten the finish of the gilded object.
   • 1598, John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, or, Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, London: Edw. Blount, p. 234,^[1]

     Muffola, a kind of colour that goldsmithes call colourish.

   • 1671, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford: Ric. Davis, Volume 2, Essay I, Section V, p. 27,^[2]

     For having by this means overlaid it evenly with Gold, they can easily with fire force away the Mercury; and, with a liquor impregnated with Nitre, Verdigrease, Sal Armoniack, and other Saline Bodies, which they call a Colourish, restore its lustre to the remaining Gold, which they after make bright by polishing.