| 单词 | vegetable blue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvegetable blue C1. In the names of pigments or colours derived from plants, as vegetable black, vegetable blue, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [adjective] > types of pigment vegetable1752 Day-Glo1951 1752 Olympiade 8 The curtains were a summer's hue, A kind of vegetable Blue. 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 174 This acid reddens vegetable blues, and gradually destroys the greater number of them. 1818 Times 17 Sept. 3/2 An infusion of some of the vegetable yellows, as turmeric, fustic, French berries, or such other substance..might be employed. 1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. x. 318 Vegetable Black.—This is the cheapest and best black for all ordinary work. 1906 E. Thurston Ethnographic Notes S. India 523 The beautiful vegetable reds of Madura and Conjeeveram are not what we should call a true red. 2002 Fine Woodworking Mar. 41/1 For this table I used..one heaped teaspoon of vegetable black dry pigment. < as lemmas |
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