Zaffer
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A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sandor quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobaltoxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelainpainting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and isoften confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, asit contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixturesof zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc.[Written also zaffre, and formerly zaffree, zaffar, zaffir.]
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A male name meaning Victorious. (Of Arabic/Indian descent.)
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A small child that dwells in the sewers feeding on shit and bathing in piss.
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