bice

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Ground smalts, blue verditer, and other pigments, have passed under the name of bice.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

She was trying to paint a fairy queen's frock with green bice, and it wouldn't rub.

From The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

Yellow Colour.—Indigo, white, and lake; or fine Dutch bice and lake, shaded with Indigo; or litmus smalt and bice, the latter predominant.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel

Sky Colour for Drapery.—Blue bice and ceruse, or ultramarine and white, shaded with indigo.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel

A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; Ð called also blue bice.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah