fustic

[fuhs-tik]

noun

the wood of a large, tropical American tree, Chlorophora tinctoria, of the mulberry family, yielding a light-yellow dye.
the tree itself.
the dye.

any of several other dyewoods.

Origin of fustic

1425–75; late Middle English fustik < Middle French fustoc < Arabic fustuq < Persian pistah; akin to Greek pistákē pistachio tree

Also called old fustic (for defs 1–3).

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Examples from the Web for fustic

Historical Examples of fustic

But the best greens are undoubtedly got from weld and fustic.
Vegetable Dyes
Ethel M. Mairet
Fustic is the wood of Morus tinctoria, a tree of Central America.
Vegetable Dyes
Ethel M. Mairet
Give the goods a mixed mordant of acetate of alumina and acetate of iron, followed by a bath of madder or of madder and fustic.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I
Arnold Cooley
One of the above mordants is followed by a bath made by mixing equal parts of the decoctions of logwood, fustic, and Brazil-wood.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I
Arnold Cooley
By adding or diminishing the log-wood and fustic any shade may be had.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887)
Mrs. F.L. Gillette

British Dictionary definitions for fustic

fustic

noun

Also called: old fustic a large tropical American moraceous tree, Chlorophora tinctoria
the yellow dye obtained from the wood of this tree
any of various trees or shrubs that yield a similar dye, esp Rhus cotinus (young fustic), a European sumach

Word Origin for fustic

C15: from French fustoc, from Spanish, from Arabic fustuq, from Greek pistakē pistachio tree

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