massicot

Borrowed from French massicot; English masticot is a corruption.

massicot (countable and uncountable, plural massicots)

1. (chemistry) lead monoxide, 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; also, lead oxide yellow, as opposed to red lead, which is lead tetroxide Pb₃O₄.

   Note Massicot is sometimes used by painters, and also as a drier in the composition of ointments and plasters.

   Quotations

   • 1952: Besides orpiment, already referred to, one occasionally gets mention of massicot, a yellow lead paint. — L.F. Salzman, Building in England, p. 169.

• acosmist, somatics

• IPA^(key): /ma.si.ko/

massicot m (plural massicots)

1. massicot
2. guillotine, a machine for cutting paper and sheet metal

• massicotier

• “massicot” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).