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Matte   /mæt/   Listen
Matte

noun
1.
A mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores are smelted.
2.
The property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss.  Synonyms: flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matt.
verb
1.
Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like.  Synonyms: felt, felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte up.
adjective
1.
Not reflecting light; not glossy.  Synonyms: flat, mat, matt, matted.  "A photograph with a matte finish"



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"Matte" Quotes from Famous Books



... a foote high upon tenne or twelve Mattes, richly hung with manie Chaynes of great Pearles about his necke, and covered with a great covering of Rahaughcums: At heade sat a woman, at his feete another, on each side sitting upon a Matte upon the ground were raunged his chiefe men on each side the fire, tenne in a ranke and behinde them as many yong women, each a great Chaine of white Beades over their shoulders: their heades painted in redde and with such a grave and Majeslicall countenance, ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... round and inscrutably alien. Your complexion is exquisite, matte gold over-lying blush pink, textured like ripe fruit. Your nose is flat, the perfect nose of China. Your eyes—your eyes are witchery! The blank curtain of your upper lid droops sharply on the iris, and when you smile the corners twinkle ...
— Profiles from China • Eunice Tietjens


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