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to overglaze

8.6

To put a decorative or protective layer on glazed pottery and fire it again

verb
/ˈoʊvərˌɡleɪz/

Specialized

: sobrevidriar

After applying the base glaze, he carefully overglazed the intricate patterns to make them stand out.

Examples

The artist learned to overglaze the ceramic plates to enhance their colors before the final firing.
To add more detail to the vase, she decided to overglaze some areas with a glossy finish.
Her eyes, as Mark Crispin Miller describes them, "are overglazed by the wide, bright lenses of her spectacles, across which a dense and luminous reflection of the passing landscape streams like water," a visual metaphor for her "clouded vision."

Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

to enamel

vsto overglaze

3 6.5

To cover a surface with a hard shiny layer for protection or decoration

applies a decorative layer over an existing ceramic coating and usually needs firing

to overpaint

vsto overglaze

Specialized

1 6.2

To paint over an existing layer to cover or change it

is used on ceramics over an existing coating and usually requires an extra firing

to reglaze

vsto overglaze

Specialized

6.7

To put a new shiny layer on a bowl or bathtub to make it look new

adds a decorative or protective layer above an existing coating and needs firing

How Decorative

to gild

5 7.0

enamel

Specialized

10 5.0

to overglaze

Specialized

8.6

glaze

43 3.7

Surface Forms

overglaze infinitive

overglazed past

overglazed past participle

overglazing present participle

overglazes third person singular

Morphology

overglaze = glaze (transparent) = over + glaze

The verb is a straightforward prefixed verb meaning 'apply over the glaze', composed of 'over-' + the verb 'glaze'.

Etymology

Overglaze comes from over meaning 'on top' and glaze meaning 'the shiny layer on pottery', so to overglaze something is to add a new color or enamel 'on top' of the glaze to decorate it and fix the design.