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rose madder
noun
- a pigment derived from anthraquinone and hydrated oxide of aluminum, characterized chiefly by its reddish color and permanence: used in painting. Compare madder lake ( def 2 ).
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rose madder1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
Gray hill slopes of the North are festal with its color, insistent even through rains, glowing from rose madder to maroon.
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Instantly all the flesh tones from rose madder and cadmium to indigo-blue ran riot in his head.
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Rose Madder and Scarlet Madder are lakes prepared from the madder root.
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The blaze threw shifting dashes of carmine on her cheeks and heightened the rose-madder of her lips.
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Athwart the western sky the after-glow of a drenched sunset lay like a wash of rose-madder.
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