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Orpement, -iment, -ament, n. Also: -yment, orpanent. [ME. and e.m.E. orpiment (1310), orpement, -yment (Chaucer), orpment (1548), OF. orpiment, also or pieument, or pigment, L. auripigmentum gold pigment.] Trisulphide of arsenic, or Yellow Arsenic, used as a gold or yellow pigment.Also attrib. with -collour, id. 1501 Treas. Acc. II. 64.
For half ane pund orpement iiij s. [for the painter] 1506 Ib. III. 193.
For tua pund orpement, xij s. Ib. 201.
For ane pund orpyment 1537–8 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I. 215.
Orpanent 1598 Edinb. Test. XXXI. 351.
Thrie pund of orpiment price xlviij s. 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 323.
Orpement for painteris the hundreth weght xii li. 1617 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II. 78.
Orpamentattrib. 1681 Blackness Customs 26 b.
Eight pund of painters birsies & tuenty pund orpament collour valu seven pound Scotts
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