minium

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Latin miniumbor. English minium Borrowed from Latin minium.

1. Cinnabar, especially when used as a pigment; vermilion.
2. Red lead.

   “The compounds formed by the combination of the peroxide of lead with the protoxide have received the general name of miniums, and are known in commerce as red lead.”

   “[H]e was so overcome by suffering that his face, which had once been of oriental minium, now became like orpiment, and the hams of his lips turned into rancid lard.”