the.com/glaze
The thin shining lie that turns raw clay and plain donuts into objects of desire.
means To coat something with a thin, glossy layer — whether a transparent finish on pottery, a sugary sheen on baked goods, or the dull film that settles over eyes losing interest.
from A cousin of "glass," and that family resemblance is the whole story. "Glaze" grew from Middle English "glasen," to fit with glass or make glassy, itself from Old English "glæs." The shared root runs back to a Germanic word for something shining and amber-bright. So a glaze on a pot and the glass in a window are linguistic siblings — both promising a smooth, gleaming surface you can see your reflection in. The "eyes glaze over" sense came later, the look of a gaze gone glassy and unseeing.
- chemistry
- Pottery glaze is essentially glass melted onto clay
- hidden danger
- Old glazes leaked lead into food for centuries
- eye phrase
- Glazed eyes signal a brain that's checked out
- weather word
- Glaze ice coats trees in lethal crystal armor
- firing heat
- Some glazes need over 1300 degrees Celsius to vitrify
ataco glaze on pottery — ceramic technique used since ancient greece, creates glass-like coating through high-heat firing
krispy kreme glazed doughnut — iconic pastry, winston-salem north carolina 1937, signature product
chinese celadon glaze — jade-green ceramic coating perfected during song dynasty (960-1279), prized worldwide