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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A yellow crystallizable coloring matter (C20H20O10) contained in the bark of the alder-buckthorn, Rhamnus Frangula, and other species of the same genus.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry A yellow crystalline dyestuff extracted from a species of buckthorn, Rhamnus frangula.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also
rhamnoxanthin .
Etymologies
- frangula + -in (Wiktionary)
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In The Colorhouse
A colorhouse - a manufactory of colors for tints, dyes, pigments, paints, glazes, &c. Terms associated with the science and history of colormaking.
All sorts of things went into color...colorhouse, Turkey red, dyebath, woad, ocher, lead white, mordant, Naples yellow, zaffer, kiln, vat, pot and 298 more...
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