A lake pigment is a pigment manufactured by precipitating a dye with an inert binder, or "mordant", usually a metallic salt. This sense of lake is unconnected with lake meaning body of water; it derives from the word lac (referring to a resinous secretion).
Manufacturers and suppliers to artists and industry frequently omit the lake designation in the name. Many lake pigments are fugitive because the dyes involved are unstable when exposed to light.
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