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Madder meaning
A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root. | The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye. | A dye made from the plant.
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Example sentences (13)
Like the Egyptians, they made a red dye from the madder plant to color silk fabric for gowns and used pigments colored with madder to make red lacquerware.
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America is run by a mad King who feels emboldened to be even madder than he has been in his first year-plus in the seat of ultimate power.
Young seemed to grow madder by the second, even as he was praising her replacement.
Chapman realised that it needed to be "madder", and came up with the parrot idea.
It duplicated the colorant in the madder plant, but was cheaper and longer lasting.
Most violet fabric was made by the dyers who worked with red, and who used dye from madder or cochineal, so Medieval violet colors were inclined toward red.
Other red lakes were made from the rose madder plant and from the brazilwood tree.
Russet was a coarse homespun cloth made of wool and dyed with woad and madder to give it a subdued grey or brown shade.
The museum also houses one of the earliest scenic models – the Madder Valley layout built by John Ahern.
Turkey red used madder as the colorant, but the process was longer and more complicated, involving multiple soaking of the fabrics in lye, olive oil, sheep's dung, and other ingredients.
Vermeer used different shades and tints of vermilion to paint the red skirt, then glazed it with madder lake to make a more luminous color.
While the Grey Hulk still had the "madder he gets, the stronger he gets" part that is similar to the Savage Hulk, it is on a much slower rate.