Word: enameling
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...cooling drink to wash down his dinner. In the creek sand that came up in his scooped hands, the thirsty Kaka tribesman saw the glint of yellow metal. He ran home and told his wife, who returned to the creek with a shovel and an enamel basin. Within six weeks, the shores of Mboscorro Creek were aswarm with men, women and children panning gold dust. Local French authorities moved in, set up a buying agency that had instructions to pay out 170 French African francs (about 80?) for each gram of the metal as it came from...
Gemmaux. They are called gemmaux, a word coined from gemmes (jewels) and émaux (enamels), and consist of bits of colored glass held together by colorless enamel. A gemmiste works from a painting, transcribing it onto a horizontal plate of glass (lighted from below) by juxtaposing and superimposing pieces of glass which have an incredible variety of colors, shapes and sizes. Virtually any intensity or shade of color can be obtained by superimposing colors in proper combinations...
During composition, the fragments of glass are held together by a transparent glue. When the panel is finished, it gets a coat of liquid, transparent enamel, and is baked and hardened in an oven. With sunlight or artificial light behind it, the panel is incandescent. The process, first developed by Jean Crotti. a Parisian. 30 years ago, was perfected six years ago by Roland Malherbe, another Parisian, and was launched by his father, Roger, on a major scale this month...
...reception thrown by Panama's Arias. Milling through the brilliantly lit yellow chamber were hundreds of guests, the men in uniforms or white dinner jackets, the women resplendent in luxurious gowns and sparkling jewels. With his fellow Presidents, Ike received from his host a magnificent gold-and-white enamel necklace decorated with Indian designs, two stars and a miniature medal...
...film's biggest surprise is Debbie Reynolds. Scrubbed of her starlet enamel, she emerges as an engaging young girl with Actors' Studio overtones-a Hollywood butterfly turned into an authentic urban grub...