Cachou de Laval
noun
Ca·chou de La·val
-dələˈval
: a direct dark brown dye for cotton obtained as the first sulfur dye by heating organic materials (as sawdust or bran) with sulfur and sodium sulfide
Word History
Etymology
French, from Laval, city in France, place of its first manufacture
First Known Use
1879, in the meaning defined above
- double-helical
- double-hung
- double-hung window
- double-jointed
- double-key cipher
- double-lock
- double-mate
- double-minded
- double-name paper
- double-nose
- double-nosed
- double-o
- double-page spread
- double-park
- double-parked
- double-parking
- double-parks
- double-pitch
- double-pole switch
- double-precision
- double-print
- double-queued
- double-quick
- double-quirked bead
- double-reef