Glaze Meaning
/ɡleɪz/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing.
nounA transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint.
Sentence Examples
Place them on the baking sheet, then glaze them with egg yolk.
There's too much pineapple glaze on the ham.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To make the pottery shiny, the artist will ____ it with a clear coating.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The potter applied a shiny blue ____ to the ceramic bowl before placing it back into the kiln to be fired.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English glasen, from glas (“glass”) (Modern English glass), from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glasą. Related to glazen. In the sense of "overcompliment", originated in November 2021 and popularized throughout 2022, and allegedly suggests the spattering of semen on the complimented person, following "the visual of a donut being glazed"; could be derived by analogy of sugarcoating first before a sexual connotation is taken separately. The noun is from the verb.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[…] In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there, […]"
— 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
"An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing."
— 2004, Frank Hamer with Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London; Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C Black; University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 248:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To make the pottery shiny, the artist will ____ it with a clear coating.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The potter applied a shiny blue ____ to the ceramic bowl before placing it back into the kiln to be fired.