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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A crystalline coloring matter found in the leaves of holly. It forms a yellow dye on cloth prepared with alumina or iron mordants.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) A yellow dye obtained from the leaves of the holly.
Etymologies
- From Ilex and xanthin. (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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