A bright orange-red color produced in cotton cloth with alizarine dye.
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1 The discovery of alizarine red was soon followed by those of alizarine orange, galleine, coeruleine, and, in 1878, of alizarine blue.
1 If you want that quality of goods in red, you ought to get Turkey red .
2 I wish I had thought of Turkey red before.
3 This room was done in Turkey red , and beside the usual furniture contained a portable bar.
4 The lady looked at me rather strangely, but measured off five yards of Turkey red calico.
5 I mean, Turkey red is what they use!
6 Then she handed the slip of paper, the money, and the Turkey red to the yellow-haired girl.
7 They consist of grey shirtings, prints (soft finish), lappets, imitation Turkey red , Tanjibs and jaconets.
8 Because your rockin' chair has a Turkey red cushion and it would look splendid in Mr. Thurston's room.
9 The sunlight flowing through curtains of Turkey red fell sanguinely upon the bust of dead-eyed Pericles on the mantle.
12 The rain-haze makes everything clammy and dull-eventhe Turkey red of Lamuse's cheeks, and even the orange armor that caparisons Tulacque.
13 She had taken off her Turkey red sunbonnet and hung it on the chair-back, where its color violently assaulted her flaming locks.
14 The fastest known in earlier days was Turkey red , a long and difficult process with madder and not very practical for the small dyer.
15 Yes, the cheap Turkey red , and the fiddler's music-a half-breedfiddler-andthe music of a pianist who spends most of his time getting sober.
16 Besides fruits and agricultural produce, its exports include raw silk, cotton, opium, rose-water, attar of roses, wax and the dye known as Turkey red .
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