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titanium white

noun

Definition of titanium white

: titanium dioxide also : a brilliant white lead-free pigment consisting of titanium dioxide often together with barium sulfate and zinc oxide

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 My Princeton painting classes took me to museums, to Philip Guston’s cadmium red, ivory black, and titanium white cigar-smoking Klansmen and John Currin’s skinny, huge breasted naked white women the color of supermarket peach flesh. — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, "Old In Art School," 20 June 2018

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1920, in the meaning defined above

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