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rose madder

American  

noun

  1. a pigment derived from anthraquinone and hydrated oxide of aluminum, characterized chiefly by its reddish color and permanence: used in painting.


Etymology

Origin of rose madder

First recorded in 1885–90

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The pigment is rose madder, an ancient organic color that conservation studies have shown to fade very gradually in sunlight.

From Slate Mar. 5, 2015

Its walls are covered with a wobbly grid of large tiles: yellow, viridian, mauve-flecked with rose madder.

From Time Magazine Archive

A limpid beauty who would have excited Goya into mixing his rose madder, Jackie Kennedy is the quintessence of cultured, luminous young womanhood.

From Time Magazine Archive

For example, there may be formed from the primaries, a compound of aureolin, rose madder, and ultramarine; or from the secondaries, a mixture of cadmium orange, viridian, and madder purple.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

She mixed cerulean blue and flake white on her palette, and worked in yellow ochre and rose madder on her canvas, to give warmth and sunshine to the effect.

From Loyal to the School by Brazil, Angela

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