indigo
IPA: ˈɪndʌgoʊ
noun
- A purplish-blue colour.
- An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (the indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.
- An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush).
adjective
- having a deep purplish-blue colour
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Examples of "indigo" in Sentences
- Dyed in indigo, it was sold near the Dongarii Fort near Bombay.
- For use as a coloring material, the indigo is placed into an alkaline solution, which again turns it green.
- He told the reporter he hates labels..doesnt like the term indigo and felt the parents need the help not the kids.
- The replacement of woad with indigo is an example of the (literal) intertwining of local and imported coloring sources.
- Newton said it had 7, so most say 7, but many people drop indigo from the list, since humans are generally very poor at differentiating indigo from blue/violet.
- I never heard the term indigo child until I read this article, but there it was in the New York Times on Thursday, and then last night at the video store I saw this--clearly some kind of confluence, at least for me.
- The first of these changes was the development of the copperas vat, used in England in the 1730s for solid coloring of cloths as well as the creation of resist patterns. 10 In this process, prepared indigo is added to a mixture of copperas (ferrous sulfate) with lime and potash.
- Processes to decompose plant matter through chemical or physical techniques had models, for both preparation and results, in indigo and woad. reference Heating, or the addition of fermenting agents, shortened preparation time and ensured that the greatest quantity of color was extracted.
- His model for discussion, indigo, is based on Saxon blue rather than on a traditional vat as it was in the earlier presentation. reference This is especially important because de la Follie developed several new dyeing processes that employed oil of vitriol — a critical component of the Saxon blue vat.
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