Translation for "ceruse" to spanish
Ceruse
noun
Translation examples
noun
Jean had spent days boiling woad and greenweed to find a green dye that would mix with the ceruse, and she had added haughty eyebrows in black.
Jean había estado días cociendo hierba y genista para hacer un tinte verde que pudiera mezclarse con el albayalde. Además, le había añadido unas soberbias pestañas negras.
There were thick tubes with India ink and ceruse, but the caps invariably got lost, the necks would dry up, and when he pressed too hard the tube would burst at the bottom and thence would come crawling and writhing a fat worm of goo.
Tenía gruesos tubos de tinta china y de cerusa, pero los tapones invariablemente se perdían, los cuellos se secaban, y cuando apretaba demasiado el tubo, reventaba por la parte inferior y de allí salía, arrastrándose y retorciéndose, un grueso gusano de sustancia pegajosa.
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