Frankfort black

noun

A black pigment formerly used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc.

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nounFrankfort black (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA black pigment formerly used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc.

    German or Frankfort BLACK, is made of the lees of wine burnt , then wash'd ' in water and ground in mills[…]

    1735, John Barrow, Dictionarium Polygraphicum
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