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
The blackest note may be gotten with ultramarine and rose madder with a little veridian if too purple; the result will be blacker than black, and have daylight in it.
From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
Gray hill slopes of the North are festal with its color, insistent even through rains, glowing from rose madder to maroon.
From Minstrel Weather by Marian Storm
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