Extract of acacia trees used variously as a food additive, astringent, tannin, and dye.
Sinònims
Examples for "cutch"
Examples for "cutch"
1He gets tar, and cutch, and ropes in the same way.
2The only thing we supply usually is cutch to fishermen.
3Large quantities of gambier are imported, under the corrupted name of cutch, into Calcutta, from Pegu.
4Hitherto the extract has been brought on to the market in a solid state very much after the style of Burma cutch.
5These proportions can be varied according to the shade of grey required; the more iron makes the colour browner, the more cutch the bluer grey.
1Objective: To study the chemical constituents of Chinese medicine Acacia catechu.
2When of good quality, catechu is more powerful as an astringent than kino.
3For other dyes cotton has a special attraction, such as catechu.
4In this bottle I have catechu powder scented with the pollen of screw-pine blossoms.
5Turmeric, orchil, catechu, and indigo carmine are all extremely fugitive.
1Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.
2Was it I who undertook to take charge of Cachou-
14,679 bales, and 14,436 baskets of terra japonica were imported into Liverpool in 1851, and 14,000 bales and baskets in 1852.