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noun
A light blue pigment made from calcium copper tetrasilicate (“CaCuSi4O10”), the first artificial pigment, used by Egyptians for over 3 millennia, before dying out during the Roman Empire; one of the few alternates to lapis lazuli during ancient times.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
From Egyptian + blue, from being a blue invented by Ancient Egyptians.
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