Colourish

Quick meaning: Colourish is a noun meaning (obsolete) A substance used in gilding to brighten the finish of the gilded object.

Meaning

(obsolete) A substance used in gilding to brighten the finish of the gilded object.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To add colour to, to brighten with colour.

Example Sentences

Muffola, a kind of colour that goldsmithes call colourish.

Would truth dispense, we could be content, with Plato, that knowledge were but Remembrance; that Intellectuall acquisition were but Reminiscentiall evocation, and new impressions but the colourishing of old stamps which stood pale in the soul before.

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

Word Forms

• colourishes
• colourishing
• colourished

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include colourant, bright, luster, glim, burnish, brights.

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