red liquor

American  

noun

1. mordant rouge.

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Etymology

Origin of red liquor

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

He noted, as a singular circumstance, that there were wineglasses upon the kitchen table and that they held red liquor and white.

From Lying Prophets by Phillpotts, Eden

The raw red liquor like thin blood had permeated all his body tissues and nerves, as water permeates the sun-dried earth, leaving it not the hard white earth but the brown soft mud.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.

Some dyers add a little tin crystals to this bath; others add a small quantity of red liquor.

From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Beech, Franklin

If the extract of bismuth is added to the red liquor of the cochineal in a small quantity, it will change it to a purple or violet colour.

From Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies by Blacker, William

At sight of the red liquor the fury died out of the ruffler's face.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael