Frankfort black
English
Noun
Frankfort black (uncountable)
- A black pigment formerly used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of McElrath to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Frankfort black in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)