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Meanings of woad in English
Usage of woad in English
1
Macbeth's woad-smeared troops simply charge at their opponents like beery football hooligans.
2
Thus kermes gave way to cochineal, woad to indigo, and so on.
3
Unfamiliar patterns were painted on her arms with woad, ash, and blood.
4
Bananach's face was painted in patterns drawn in wet ashes and woad.
5
A man called Batcock wants a licence to import 100 tuns of woad.
6
The following method of setting a woad vat may be adopted.
7
Neither could moss, or madder, or woad, or anything on Earth.
8
I dyed it with woad to hide that my hair is going gray.
9
Her body was heavily decorated with woad: bright blue on her white skin.
10
The woad-sellers no longer heaped up their measures, as of old, above the brim.
11
The sky blue of the surcoat was from woad, not the expensive mollusk blue.
12
But there would be no more purple and fine linen, and no more blue woad.
13
Let's go and see our woad-painted savage in action.'
14
The ancient Briton must have vied with his neighbor in different designs with the woad plant.
15
Most of those gorgeous hues came from Mediterranean molluscs and from the fluffy looking woad plant.
16
This was the tattooing with the woad.
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