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- (especially in painting and ceramics) using pigments mixed with hot wax which are burned in as an inlay(尤指绘画和制陶艺术)腊画的, 上釉烧入彩色的。
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- (of bricks and tiles) decorated with differently coloured clays, which are inlaid into the surface and burnt in(砖瓦)用彩色黏土镶嵌后烧制而成的; 彩色的。
词源
late 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek enkaustikos, from enkaiein 'burn in', from en - 'in' + kaiein 'to burn'.