fustic
Americannoun
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the wood of a large, tropical American tree, Chlorophora tinctoria, of the mulberry family, yielding a light-yellow dye.
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the tree itself.
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the dye.
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any of several other dyewoods.
noun
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Also called: old fustic. a large tropical American moraceous tree, Chlorophora tinctoria
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the yellow dye obtained from the wood of this tree
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any of various trees or shrubs that yield a similar dye, esp Rhus cotinus ( young fustic ), a European sumach
Etymology
Origin of fustic
1425–75; late Middle English fustik < Middle French fustoc < Arabic fustuq < Persian pistah; akin to Greek pistákē pistachio tree
Example Sentences
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Dye with 8 per cent fustic, 2 per cent madder, 1 per cent cudbear, 2 per cent tartar.
From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Ethel M. Mairet
Galloflavin is used in wool and silk dyeing on chromium mordant as a substitute for fustic and other yellow dyewoods, to furnish the yellow part of compound shades.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
This tree is sometimes called old fustic, in order to distinguish it from another commercial dye called young fustic, which is obtained in Europe from a species of Rhus.
From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders
I likewise had orders to exchange my goods for hides, deer-skins, cochineal, gum elastic or India rubber, gum copal, cotton, fustic, sarsaparilla, &c.
From Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... by Jacob Dunham
Ebony, rosewood, fustic, lancewood, mahogany, and other choice woods are very abundant, especially the mahogany, which grows to enormous size.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Maturin Murray Ballou
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