Indian red
adjEtymology 1672 pigment, c. 1810–27 colour and adjective. Indian + red, the pigment originally being an earth obtained from the East Indies.
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Having the colour of Indian red pigment.
Indian red
nounEtymology 1672 pigment, c. 1810–27 colour and adjective. Indian + red, the pigment originally being an earth obtained from the East Indies.
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Any of a variety of red or purple pigments containing ferric oxide, found in natural earth or made by chemical methods like calcinating green copperas.
- Bradly paid no attention to either intrusion on his meditations, which at that moment were deeply concerned with adding Payne's grey to a combination of cobalt and Indian red for keying down his palette in the treatment of light reflected on water.1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter IX, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 98:
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Specifically, iron saffron.
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The colour of Indian red pigment: a variety of dark, purplish reds.
- Derived terms
- native Indian red