Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Jan 29, 2005 01:39
19 yrs ago
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French term
massicot
French to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
se passe au temps de Vermeer
Il me montra les peintures qui y étaient rangées et m'en donna les noms. Outremer, vermillon, massicot...
Dans La jeune fille à la perle de Tracy Chevalier
Je suis peintre et je ne connais pas massicot - GDT me donne guillotine, mais pas pour une peinture - si quelqu'un a la version anglaise (ou a vu le film), éclairez mes lumières
Dans La jeune fille à la perle de Tracy Chevalier
Je suis peintre et je ne connais pas massicot - GDT me donne guillotine, mais pas pour une peinture - si quelqu'un a la version anglaise (ou a vu le film), éclairez mes lumières
Proposed translations
(English)
| 5 | massicot |
Tegan Raleigh
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| 4 +5 | Litharge |
Subhamay Ray (X)
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| 5 | paper cutter |
1964
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| 5 | yellow |
xuebai
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| 5 | marzacotto |
Veronique Domaratsky-Dujardin
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| 3 | This might help |
Anna Maria Augustine (X)
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Proposed translations
20 hrs
Tegan Raleigh
United States
United States
Native in English
Specializes in field
United States
Literature & Scholarship
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: French to English, English, German to English
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massicot
You can search within Amazon.com for selected books, and actually "flip" through them. I think they scan in the pages and somehow all words on the page are registered... so you can not only flip through the books, but do a word search on them. The link for The Girl with the Pearl Earring is:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0452282152/ref=sib_vae_pg_98...
and the quote, from p. 98, is:
"... were kept where, naming the colors as he went. I had not heard of many of the words-ultramarine , vermilion, massicot. The brown and yellow earth colors and the bone black and lead white were stored in little earthenware pots, covered ..."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0452282152/ref=sib_vae_pg_98...
and the quote, from p. 98, is:
"... were kept where, naming the colors as he went. I had not heard of many of the words-ultramarine , vermilion, massicot. The brown and yellow earth colors and the bone black and lead white were stored in little earthenware pots, covered ..."
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "I'm giving it to Tegan for getting me the exact sentence in English, but I learned a few things today thanks to all of you (OK yesterday, too)"
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18 mins
paper cutter
massicot
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Note added at 23 mins (2005-01-29 02:03:24 GMT)
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Massicot=Massicot
Sorry it may not be paper cutter
Massicot is given as a Mineral may be used in peinture
http://webmineral.com/data/Massicot.shtml
PbO
Environment: Rare mineral of secondary origin associated with galena. Dimorphous with litharge.
IMA Status: Valid Species (Pre-IMA)
Locality: Stolberg, near Aachen, Germany. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Name Origin: French name for lead oxide.
Synonym: ICSD 15402
Lead Monoxide
PDF 38-1477
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Note added at 24 mins (2005-01-29 02:04:25 GMT)
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Please see axplanation
Massicot \\Mas\"si*cot\\, n. [F. massicot; E. masticot is a
corruption.] (Chem.)
Lead protoxide, PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder,
the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge;
lead ocher. It is used as a pigment.
Litharge \\Lith\"arge\\, n. [OE. litarge, F. litharge, L.
lithargyrus, Gr. ? the scum or foam of silver; li`qos stone +
? silver. Litharge is found in silverbearing lead ore.]
(Chem.)
Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an
amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating
lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead
nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in
glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called
also massicot.
http://dict.die.net/massicot/
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Note added at 23 mins (2005-01-29 02:03:24 GMT)
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Massicot=Massicot
Sorry it may not be paper cutter
Massicot is given as a Mineral may be used in peinture
http://webmineral.com/data/Massicot.shtml
PbO
Environment: Rare mineral of secondary origin associated with galena. Dimorphous with litharge.
IMA Status: Valid Species (Pre-IMA)
Locality: Stolberg, near Aachen, Germany. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Name Origin: French name for lead oxide.
Synonym: ICSD 15402
Lead Monoxide
PDF 38-1477
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Note added at 24 mins (2005-01-29 02:04:25 GMT)
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Please see axplanation
Massicot \\Mas\"si*cot\\, n. [F. massicot; E. masticot is a
corruption.] (Chem.)
Lead protoxide, PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder,
the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge;
lead ocher. It is used as a pigment.
Litharge \\Lith\"arge\\, n. [OE. litarge, F. litharge, L.
lithargyrus, Gr. ? the scum or foam of silver; li`qos stone +
? silver. Litharge is found in silverbearing lead ore.]
(Chem.)
Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an
amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating
lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead
nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in
glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called
also massicot.
http://dict.die.net/massicot/
Peer comment(s):
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Anna Maria Augustine (X)
: Not in this context
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Yes it is a mineral
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3 hrs
Litharge
It is lead oxide.
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Note added at 3 hrs 29 mins (2005-01-29 05:09:13 GMT)
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Etymology:Middle English masticote, from Middle French massicot, masticot, from Old Italian marzacotto, massicotto pottery glaze
1 : lead monoxide obtained as a yellow powder at temperatures below the melting point of the oxide — compare LITHARGE 1
2 : lead monoxide occurring native in the form of yellow crystals — compare LITHARGE 2
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Note added at 3 hrs 34 mins (2005-01-29 05:14:32 GMT)
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You have it in GDT but you will have to look under the head \"Chemistry\"...
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Note added at 3 hrs 37 mins (2005-01-29 05:17:08 GMT)
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Since \"massicot\" occurs in English dictionaries such as Webster\'s why don\'t keep this term?
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Note added at 3 hrs 29 mins (2005-01-29 05:09:13 GMT)
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Etymology:Middle English masticote, from Middle French massicot, masticot, from Old Italian marzacotto, massicotto pottery glaze
1 : lead monoxide obtained as a yellow powder at temperatures below the melting point of the oxide — compare LITHARGE 1
2 : lead monoxide occurring native in the form of yellow crystals — compare LITHARGE 2
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Note added at 3 hrs 34 mins (2005-01-29 05:14:32 GMT)
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You have it in GDT but you will have to look under the head \"Chemistry\"...
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Note added at 3 hrs 37 mins (2005-01-29 05:17:08 GMT)
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Since \"massicot\" occurs in English dictionaries such as Webster\'s why don\'t keep this term?
Peer comment(s):
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Tegan Raleigh
: The English reads: ... paints were kept where, naming the colors as he went. I had not heard of many of the words-ultramarine , vermilion, massicot. The brown and yellow earth colors and the bone black and lead white were stored in little earthenware pots
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Thanks for the source!
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Dr Sue Levy (X)
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Thank you!
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Ian Burley (X)
4 hrs
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Thanks!
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Anna Maria Augustine (X)
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Thanks!
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Mario Marcolin
: a somewhat reddish yellow pigment
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Thanks!
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5 hrs
yellow
cinnabar, azurite and massicot, TOBAS MAYER.
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Note added at 5 hrs 54 mins (2005-01-29 07:33:47 GMT)
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i meant TOBIAS MAYER
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Note added at 5 hrs 54 mins (2005-01-29 07:33:47 GMT)
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i meant TOBIAS MAYER
7 hrs
Veronique Domaratsky-Dujardin
Native in French
&
English
Works in field
Ready to go
Native in: French 
, English
Works in: French to English, English to French
marzacotto
Give someone a thrill and use the original Italian. Massicot is a bastardization of this word, (meaning lead oxide yellow). You know how bad the French are at foreign languages. The paper cutter is named after a frog called Massicot. (Petit Larousse illustré 1988).
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