the name of the capital of Austria used in various collocations, as Vienna blue, cobalt blue; Vienne caustic, = Vienna paste; Vienna cross, a stitch used in fancy embroideries; Vienna green (see quot. 1852); Vienna paste, a paste made up of equal parts of caustic potash and quicklime; Vienna white (see quot.).
1835. G. Field, Chromatography, 111. [Cobalt blue] has been called *Vienna blue, Paris blue, azure, and, very improperly, ultramarine.
1865. G. B. Wood & Bache, Dispensat. U.S. Amer. (ed. 12), 1279. This preparation is a grayish-white powder, sometimes called *Vienna caustic.
1882. Caulfeild & Saward, Dict. Needlework, 188/1. Persian Cross stitch, a stitch … also called *Vienna Cross.
1842. Francis, Dict. Arts, *Vienna Green, the same as Schweinford green; it is an arseniate of copper.
1852. W. Gregory, Handbk. Org. Chem. (ed. 3), 214. Schweinfurt or Vienna Green is a double salt, formed of acetate and arsenite of copper.
1867. Berkeley Hill, Essentials of Bandaging, 148. *Vienna paste, that is, equal parts of potassa fusa and quick lime worked into a paste with spirits of wine.
1886. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., II. 5/2. To prevent its diffusion it is usually mixed with quicklime in what is known as Vienna Paste, or Potassa cum Calce.
1861. Chambers’s Encycl., II. 744. The *Vienna white of artists is simply purified chalk.
b. The distinctive name of a grade of wheat-flour, and of certain forms of plain or fancy bread.
1879. Warne’s Model Cookery, 603/2. Vienna Cake … Take a large round spongecake and cut it very carefully into thin slices [etc.].
1889. R. Wells, Pastrycook & Confect. Guide, 12. Vienna Bread. Take 12 lbs. of Vienna flour [etc.]. Ibid. (1893), Mod. Pract. Bread Baker, 50. Vienna Bread. This I claim to be our highest grade of white bread. Ibid., 52. Common Vienna Loaves.
1906. 365 Breads & Biscuits, 61. They [Vienna Rolls] may stand half an hour before baking if desired.
