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Middle English
Noun
litarge (plural litarges)
- litharge
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 629-630:
Ther nas quik-silver, litarge, ne brimstoon,
Boras, ceruce, ne oille of tartre noon, [...]- There was no mercury, lead monoxide, nor sulphur,
Borax, white lead, nor any oil of tarter,
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 774-777:
Our orpiment and sublymed Mercurie,
Our grounden litarge eek on the porphurie,
Of ech of thise of ounces a certeyn
Nought helpeth us, our labour is in veyn.- Our orpiment, and purified mercury,
Our litharge ground also on the porphyry mortar,
A certain number of ounces of each of these
Nothing helps us, our labor is in vain.