zinghohttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zingho_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezingho, n.
Revised 2021

† zinghonoun

Obsolete. rare.
  1. 1743
    Zinc.
    Apparently only used in the correspondence cited in the quots.
    1. 1743
      He [sc. Carlo Ginori, Italian porcelain manufacturer] talks to me much about cobalt and zingho, two minerals which he says are found in England, and which would be vastly useful to him in composing the colours for the painting his China.
      H. Mann, Letter 12 March in H. Walpole, Correspondence (1954) vol. XVIII. 184
    2. 1743
      He promised me too to go to Lord Islay to know what cobolt and zingho are.
      H. Walpole, Letter 10 June in Correspondence (1954) vol. XVIII. 250

zingho, n. was revised in March 2021.

zingho, n. was last modified in December 2024.