white lead

1. 1.

   a poisonous white pigment that contains lead

   Synonymsceruselead carbonate

   Broaderpigment

Questions about white lead

What does white lead mean?

white lead means "a poisonous white pigment that contains lead".

What is another word for white lead?

Close synonyms include ceruse, lead carbonate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is white lead a common word?

white lead is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.