red liquor

American  

noun

1. mordant rouge.

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Etymology

Origin of red liquor

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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red liquor

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

There was meat on the trenchers, and red liquor in the jeweled goblets.

From The Secret of Kralitz by Kuttner, Henry

The widow fainted; and what may be supposed her feelings, when she found, on coming to herself, that that identical and terrific red liquor had had a share in her recovery!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by Wilson, John Mackay

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

Such mordants as "red liquor" and "iron liquor," which are acetates of alumina and iron respectively, are also wasted, a portion of them being precipitated by the lime, thus weakening the mordant baths.

From The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association by Shonk, Albert