rose madder

noun

a pigment derived from anthraquinone and hydrated oxide of aluminum, characterized chiefly by its reddish color and permanence: used in painting. Compare madder lake ( def 2 ).

First recorded in 1885–90

Gray hill slopes of the North are festal with its color, insistent even through rains, glowing from rose madder to maroon.

Instantly all the flesh tones from rose madder and cadmium to indigo-blue ran riot in his head.

Rose Madder and Scarlet Madder are lakes prepared from the madder root.

The blaze threw shifting dashes of carmine on her cheeks and heightened the rose-madder of her lips.

Athwart the western sky the after-glow of a drenched sunset lay like a wash of rose-madder.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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