Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water.
\SLAYK\, transitive verb: 1 To satisfy; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst 2 To cause to lessen; to make less active or intense; to moderate; as, slaking his anger 3 To cause (as lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with water