Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In dyeing, a dark-green color produced on fabrics printed with aniline black, by treating the pieces with acids before the black has been completely developed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A green compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry Any of a class of
green dyestuffs that have anoligoaniline structure
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Examples
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Another moment passed, and the broken figure in the emeraldine armor remained a still portrait beneath the blazing sun.
365 tomorrows » Footnote to War : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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Another moment passed, and the broken figure in the emeraldine armor remained a still portrait beneath the blazing sun.
365 tomorrows » 2006 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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No higher praise can writers bestow on a colleague than emeraldine envy.
Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991
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No higher praise can writers bestow on a colleague than emeraldine envy.
Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991
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That worthy was clad in an exquisitely cut suit of snappy emeraldine laid over a ruffled shirt of deep azure.
Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974
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The violet mauve led the way, followed by the red magenta, the blue azuline, the yellow phosphine, the green emeraldine, the orange aurine, by purple, and brown, and black.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Above the white bottom the water shone a vivid emeraldine green, changing to sharply marked browns over the shoals, while beyond the inner reefs it varied from all shades of sapphire blue to radiant aquamarine.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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Never, you imagine, never could one tire of wandering through those marvellous valleys, -- of climbing the silent roads under emeraldine shadow to heights from which the city seems but a few inches long, and the moored ships tinier than gnats that cling to a mirror, -- or of swimming in that blue bay whose clear flood stays warm through all the year.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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