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Colour of the spectrum
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indigo
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Word definitions for indigo in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And the solid indigo of his intention shocked her. ▪ Dark, sensuous lilac is derived from the Persian word for midnight blue indigo , itself an import from the Indus. ▪ Male indigo birds sport beautiful metallic blue plumage, ...
Usage examples of indigo.
This hawking machine will be found useful in dyeing indigo on wool, in mordanting and dyeing wool with the Alizarine series of dyes.
She opened them and saw the leader of Bu Awan, wearing the black and indigo robes of the garden.
Baeyer and Emmerling in 1870, Suida in 1878, Baeyer in 1878, Baeyer and Drewsen in 1882, and Heumann in 1890, can be said to have been the pioneers in the production of artificial indigo.
He shared it with one of the Mouths of the Bedu nomads, an enigmatic and apparently sexless creature covered from head to toe in one of their characteristic, belted blue robes and over-vest, dyed with indigo.
To Cartagena came the gold and emeralds of New Granada, the pearls of Margarita and Rancherias, and the indigo, tobacco, cocoa and other products of the Venezuelan coast.
I could see vast expanses of the world, including the waters of the Indigo Sea and the jungles of Cyrilla far to the south, the wheat fields of Ganth to the west, the uncharted wilderness of the east, and the legendary blue ice fields of the Ultimate North.
In the case of some dyes, indigo especially, this is not desirable, and yet it is advisable to run the cloth open for some time in the liquor so as to get thoroughly impregnated with the dye-liquor.
The sulpho-acids of the azo colours, of the basic dyes, and of indigo are usually insoluble in water, although there are great differences in their properties in this respect.
The drifts lay on the land like iridescent silk, tucked in folds of cobalt and violet beneath a sky deepened to indigo.
That indigo for added color was employed by ink manufacturers in the eighteenth century is shown by the formulas appearing in the literature of that time.
The vegetable matter in common inks facilitates the destruction, or rather alteration and precipitation of the indigo, for the dye appears in the iron precipitate and may be extracted from it with boiling water.
The indigo and prussian blue inks are well known, the former under certain conditions a very permanent ink, the latter soon disintegrating.
She was wearing what Doreen had dreamed up as the new Mitannian national costume, an open jacket of crimson silk embroidered with dragons in gold thread over a long, simple gown of indigo blue set with bullion medallions along the hem.
On the stage Nagami and Hollis look at each other and at the rest of the group, and then Moog Indigo slides into the last number with scarcely a pause.
Between the palms, far away towards SidiZerzour, above the long indigo line of the Sahara, there rose a curve of deep red gold.