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Word entry · 6 letters

enamel

Best crossword clue

"Tooth outer layer"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ɪˈnæməl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aeelmnStarts with EEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Hard glossy coating, especially on teeth or metal.

Word origin

From Middle English enamel, from Anglo-Norman enamailler, from en- (“in-”) + amailler (“to enamel”), variant of Old French esmailler (“to enamel”), from esmal (“enamel”), from Early Medieval Latin smaltum, from Frankish *smalt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaną (“to melt, smelt”).

Used in a sentence

  • Against the fence, in a line, were six chipped-enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums, cared for as tenderly as if they belonged to Miss Maudie Atkinson
  • Their plumed helmes are wrought with beaten golde, Their ſwords enameld, and about their neckes Hangs maſſie chaines of golde downe to the waſte, In euery part exceding braue and rich.
  • Oft he [the serpent] bowed / His turret crest and sleek enamelled neck.

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