Rich red dye from the roots of plants of the Rubia family, used in Eurasia since ancient times.
Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin.
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Examples for "madder root"
Examples for "madder root"
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Purple colours are also manufactured by dyeing chalk with madder root and with hysginum.
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Alizarin was known to the ancients, and until 1868 was obtained entirely from madder root.
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Alizarine, which has been extensively discussed in various articles in our journal, is the coloring matter contained in the madder root.
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One of the most notable of these is the substance known as alizarine, the coloring matter extracted from the madder root.
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In 1870 the German chemists, Graebe and Liebermann, announced that they had succeeded in producing artificial alizarin,-thecoloring matter of the madder root.
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To Quonga I gave a tarboosh (fez), and four yards of turkey red cloth.
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Hickory bark an bay leaves dyes yellow set wid chamber lye; bamboo dyes turkey red, set color wid copper.
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He is pleased, as well, with the turkey red seed for hard winter wheat that he brought back from Fort Madison.
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Zone, element of festivity in arches crossing street at short intervals, ribbons of turkey red suspended from each lamp give warmth and action.
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Peg was dressed in her usual short drugget skirt, rather worn and frayed around the bottom, and a waist of brilliant turkey red calico.
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He simply got madder and madder, putting the question again and again.
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Some old dyers use Brazil wood to heighten the red of madder.
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The effect of this discovery was to throw madder out of cultivation.
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The traffic officer was Irish too, and bigger than Casey, and madder.
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But I was suddenly furious, madder than I'd ever been at anyone.
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Spurs, meanwhile, are madder than Murdoch with director of football Damien Comolli.
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The more I tried to make him understand, the madder he got.
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If I drove you mad, it was you made me madder still.
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Nothing makes a Basque madder than to be mistaken for a Spaniard.
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And each time he sees them he comes home madder than before.
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My foot hurt like blazes though, and it only made me madder.
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No order, no discipline, no soldiership-nothingbut mad haste and madder fear.
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Noise, merriment, an even gayer and livelier clash of glasses, madder nights.
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Lavender, madder red, pale green, and butter yellow are the predominant colors.
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Among them are aniline violet, iodine violet, madder, alkanet, orchil and logwood.
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Here's his letter to me, madder'n a wet hen, he was, too.
