rose madder
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rose madder
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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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
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
Its walls are covered with a wobbly grid of large tiles: yellow, viridian, mauve-flecked with rose madder.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is much used both in figure and landscape painting, giving fine grays with cobalt, and serviceable compounds with yellow ochre, indigo, lamp black, rose madder, Payne's grey, brown madder, &c.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
The name, however, still lives, but is applied to rose madder, which is indeed indifferently called Rose Madder, Pink Madder, or Madder Lake.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
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