indigo
నీలిమందు
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noun
The planting of indigoes was only by a handful of Hakka farmers in mountain towns, because poor transportation prevented them from acquiring imported dyes.
a tropical plant of the pea family, which was formerly widely cultivated as a source of dark blue dye.
Tuareg and Fulani women wear dark clothes dyed with indigo .
the dark blue dye obtained from the indigo plant.
translation of 'indigo'
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In the Colonial Era, chemical manufacturing was confined to such rudimentary products as 'indigo' dyes, naval stores, leather, glass, soap, and candles.
Blue colour was derived from 'indigo' while black was obtained from iron oxide.
Natural 'indigo' is obtained from the plant indigofera.
I reached for my coat, a deep blue dyed with a plant called 'indigo' , and, after a second's hesitation, also took a pair of wool-lined gloves.
Later color theorists generally replaced 'indigo' and violet with just a single hue: purple or violet.
Vegetable dyes have always been cheaper, the most common in William Perkin's day were madder and 'indigo' , the ancient red and blue dyes.
He sighed and looked more closely at the auburn hair and then looked into those dark thoughtful eyes, the strangest colour he had ever seen, a deep 'indigo' violet.
The sky had vanished, the entire world was painted a dark 'indigo' .
Others planted truck gardens and sold corn, cotton, peanuts, sweet potatoes, tobacco, 'indigo' , watermelons, and gourds at the market for profit.
From it radiated directly the 'indigo' and rice plantations.
The same options were available for dyeing the wool or cotton, which could be achieved using dyes such as madder, cochineal, and 'indigo' .
She was wearing a sari, the whole outfit patterned with stylized blossoms that were yellow, while the backround was a rich 'indigo' .
They were not blue, they were fiery cobalt, intense 'indigo' , smoldering sapphire, and they could change their appearance with her every varying emotion.
I thought 'indigo' might be popular because it's a colour people associate with rainbows and not much else.
Something I left out of the above post, that you might also find amusing is that there was a guy who's job in the factory was to make sure that the 'indigo' did not over ferment.
It has the familiar, but always appealing, 'indigo' and saffron colour scheme and wooden floor of many modern restaurants.
But as I slowly looked over to the east, the sky turned from deep black to 'indigo' to azure to ever lighter shades of blue.
Its blue colorant is chemically identical to 'indigo' made from plants of the genus Indigofera, cultivated in Asia.
In the sixteenth century El Salvador produced cacao, from which chocolate is made; in the eighteenth century it grew 'indigo' , which yields a blue dye used in clothing.
Even rarer were certain organic dyes, such as 'indigo' or purple, which had to be impregnated in chalk or the like to make them fast.
Portuguese and Genoan sailors used this durable, blue, broad cloth, dyed with 'indigo' , for their bellbottom sailing pants, and it soon became popular with farmers and others.
A proposal from 1822 that calls for the use of paper dyed with blue 'indigo' might be of help.
Indigo was also a significant earner of Chinese silver, but its replacement by synthetic Prussian blue brought the 'indigo' business to a disastrous end.
The aerial part of the plant was used locally for 'indigo' dyeing in ancient time.
The rest were different shades of blue, from sky blue to 'indigo' .
One corner of the obsidian has been cut and polished, and when held in the light it shimmers from 'indigo' to violet.
The sheets are a dark 'indigo' blue, easily mistaken for black if there's nothing blue around to enhance the presence of that color.
Coffee, sugar, cotton, and 'indigo' (a blue dye) from Haiti accounted for nearly one-half of France's foreign trade.
A more accurate map shows a wash of differing hues of 'indigo' and violet, with some smatterings of infrared and ultraviolet at the extremes.
Because the blue used was generally 'indigo' , two separate dyebaths were required or, less satisfactorily, green pigments were used.
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