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red ochre
A variety of ochre, commonly used for colouring with; reddle or ruddle.
1572Churchw. Acc. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. (M.S.), Payed for red oker iijd. 1601Holland Pliny II. 417 This floure of salt is..commonly coloured with red ocre. 1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. iv. §7 (1700) 35 Some ingenious Anglers..use to shave Riddle or red Oker into the Moss they keep their Worms in. 1725Phil. Trans. XXXIII. 395 About Winford..it turns to Ruddle, or Red-Okre, used chiefly for marking of Sheep. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 240 They use many methods to darken their skins by art, painting them with red ochre [etc.]. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 69/2 The company are now promenading outside in all the dignity of wigs, spangles, red-ochre, and whitening. 1884W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron iii. 34 The soft and more earthy varieties [of red hæmatite] constitute red ochre.
attrib.1609Dekker Lanth. & Candle-lt. viii, No Red⁓oaker man caries a face of a more filthy complexion. 1623–4Middleton & Rowley Span. Gipsy ii. i, No red-ochre rascals umbered with soot and bacon as the English gipsies are.
Hence red-ochre v. Also red-ochreing vbl. n.
1884Baring-Gould Mehalah x, The roof was tiled and looked very red, as though red ochred every morning. 1899Strand Mag. Mar. 278/1 A little staining and red-ochreing. |