All experienced artisans know that ceruse is not easily penetrated by oil, and one is often required to begin to grind it in water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

Blue bice and ceruse, or ultramarine and white, shaded with indigo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

Watin used the example of ceruse, a lead-based pigment that absorbs water readily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

Painters debated the relative merits of lead white, ceruse, zinc white, and white clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

Metallic colors — for example, ceruse, lead white, verdet — have no odor by themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

He did not describe how he equalized or made the colors comparable, but it may have been by adding white lead or ceruse to the pigment-oil mixture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

The bridegroom was too weak of eyesight "to distinguish ceruse from natural bloom.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

In an epoch when almost every woman of fashion plastered herself with bismuth and ceruse, Lord Bramber's daughter could afford to exhibit the complexion nature had given her, and might defy paint to match it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5] Reference

Then he just coated the canvas with ceruse, laid on with a palette-knife, refusing to size it previously, in order that it might remain absorbent, by which method he declared that the painting would be bright and solid.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Masterpiece] Reference

However, Raymonde and Madame Desagneaux, as well as M. de Guersaint, who had such a lively imagination, experienced deep disappointment at sight of the little green barrel, the capsules, sticky with ceruse, and the piles of shavings lying around the benches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 3] Reference

Isped (or Saféd) áb, lit. = white water, ceruse used for women’s faces suggesting our.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

A swan need not be white: it is constitutive in ceruse, just as warmth is constitutive of the Reality, fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

Thereafter follow recipes to "temper vermelone to wryte therewith"; "to temper asure, roses, ceruse, rede lede," and other pigments; "to make asure to schyne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages] Reference

Emollient medicines which make the cicatrices fair: - Pound the inner mucous part of the squill and pitch, with fresh swine’s seam, and a little oil, and a little resin, and ceruse.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Ulcers] Reference

As for her painting, doubtless she does that to remind her customers that she sells alabaster powder and ceruse. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference

Not knowing what rouge or ceruse is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II] Reference

Of mucus and fucus from mere use of ceruse: 830.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dramatic Romances] Reference

You can ceruse it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference

Boras, ceruse, ne oile of tartre non.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution] Reference

Masticot, ochre, umber, ceruse, and cherry-stone black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference