Word: pigment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...outer skin varies, in different parts of the body, from 1-240 to 1-12 of an inch. This increase in thickness is due, in a measure, to the pressure to which these parts, as the palms of the hands, are exposed. The cells of this skin contain a pigment which is so marked in members of the African race. Absence of it makes what are called albinoes, and strange to say, albinoes are commonest among the black races. It has been suggested that this pigment in the epidermis may serve the purpose of protecting the true skin from...
...truth in that. College life is not so black nor are college men so hardened as they are painted, especially not so when a poor artist in the shape of a sensational reporter uses upon the pictures a brush which has not been carefully cleansed from that pigment which should be confined to political campaigns alone and which is called in plain English - mud. -[Yale Courant...