"cerused" meaning in English

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          "text": "My wants have not transformed me: I dare tell you, / To your new-cerused face",
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          "ref": "1858, Truman Slater, A New Compendium of Ancient History, Geography, and Chronology, page 178:",
          "text": "Because I though myself more deserving of such a dignity, being more like a man, and able to render more service to the king than you who are so cerused, shaved, and painted about the eyes, face, and skin.",
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          "ref": "1911, Martial, Paul Nixon (translator), A Roman Wit: Epigrams of Martial Rendered Into English by Paul Nixon, page 74:",
          "text": "\"Your cerused lips and bandaged chin seem well ; Pray what's amiss? \" Philænis, if I've got to tell—I dread your kiss.",
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          "ref": "2011, Emery Lee, Fortune's Son:",
          "text": "He surveyed the chamber filled with vibrant silks and the white powdered wigs adorning old beaux and grande dames, cerused and patched in the prevailing fashion.",
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        "Washed with a preparation of white lead as a cosmetic treatment."
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          "text": "Traverse the lobby's inlaid marble floor and cream Venetian-plastered walls and ascend one level to the reception area, lounge and bar boasting cerused dark wood floors, 15-foot-high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows facing Thompson Street.",
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          "ref": "2017, Steven M. Price, Trousdale Estates:",
          "text": "Furnishings of teak and cerused oak inside and out compliment bona fide classics such as the Barcelona chairs in the living room and Eames lounge in the master bedroom .",
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          "ref": "2019, Anthony Iannacci, New York Design at Home, page 80:",
          "text": "Flynn's design for the kitchen incorporates a combination of cerused teak cabinetry, bronzed steel, and basaltina volcanic stone counters. By using the same cerused-teak in the bedroom for a wall of storage, Flynn created a sense of continuity he hoped would both render the space more modern and increase the perception of continuous space.",
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        "(of wood) Finished with a whitening pigment that fills the grain, originally white lead, but in more recent times using less toxic pigments."
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