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語源

Origin unknown.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /məˈɡɪlp/

名詞

megilp (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 megilps)

1. (art) A mixture of linseed oil with turpentine or mastic varnish, used as a thickener for oil paints but later discredited as a source of cracking and yellowing. [from 18th c.]
   • 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre 2003, p. 202:

     He was in a hurry […] and instead of replicating the twenty or so layers of paint in the original he used megilp to give the impression of thickly applied paint.