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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name given to several mordant coal-tar colors of the nitroso type. They all dye chromium-mordanted wool brown and iron-mordanted wool green.
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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 151 more...
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