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Meanings of madder in English

Portuguese
garança
Spanish
garanza
Wikidata

Rich red dye from the roots of plants of the Rubia family, used in Eurasia since ancient times.

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        garança
        Wikidata

        Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin.

              Usage of madder in English
              1
              He simply got madder and madder, putting the question again and again.
              Cat’s Cradle
              2
              Some old dyers use Brazil wood to heighten the red of madder.
              Vegetable Dyes: Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Us...
              3
              The effect of this discovery was to throw madder out of cultivation.
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
              4
              The traffic officer was Irish too, and bigger than Casey, and madder.
              The Trail of the White Mule
              5
              But I was suddenly furious, madder than I'd ever been at anyone.
              Notes from the dog
              6
              Spurs, meanwhile, are madder than Murdoch with director of football Damien Comolli.
              The Guardian
              7
              The more I tried to make him understand, the madder he got.
              Apocalypse of the Dead
              8
              If I drove you mad, it was you made me madder still.
              Theresa Raquin
              9
              Nothing makes a Basque madder than to be mistaken for a Spaniard.
              The new yorker
              10
              And each time he sees them he comes home madder than before.
              Elizabeth's Campaign
              11
              My foot hurt like blazes though, and it only made me madder.
              Past malice: an emma fielding mystery
              12
              No order, no discipline, no soldiership-nothingbut mad haste and madder fear.
              The Yeoman Adventurer
              13
              Noise, merriment, an even gayer and livelier clash of glasses, madder nights.
              Love affairs of the Courts of Europe
              14
              Lavender, madder red, pale green, and butter yellow are the predominant colors.
              Arcadia falls
              15
              Among them are aniline violet, iodine violet, madder, alkanet, orchil and logwood.
              Forty Centuries of Ink / Or, A chronological narrative concernin...
              16
              Here's his letter to me, madder'n a wet hen, he was, too.
              Other People's Business: The Romantic Career of the Practical Mi...
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