mordant
adjective
sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker; biting.
mordanted
Example Sentences
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Gallocyanin, as it is called, imparts a violet blue shade to mordanted cotton.
From Coal and What We Get from It by Raphael Meldola
It forms brown crystals which are readily soluble in hot water, and it dyes mordanted cotton a dark brown.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
The wool, previously mordanted with alum or chrome according to the shade of yellow wanted, is put into the dye bath with the boiling liquor, which has been strained.
From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Ethel M. Mairet
We then dip the mordanted piece of cotton into the colour bath, containing, for instance, Magenta, and it is dyed a fine red, composed of a tannate of antimony and Magenta.
From The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association by Albert Shonk
They may be combined with logwood, as they will dye with equal facility on mordanted and unmordanted wool.
From The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics by Franklin Beech
