indigo
índigo
definition
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'
noun
anil,
índigo,
corante azul
adjective
azul-escuro
example
Rich shades of violet and 'indigo' melted into the vast blackness of the sky.
Originally, natural dyes from amla, henna, pomegranate, 'indigo' and turmeric were used to dye the silk.
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.
Tuareg and Fulani women wear dark clothes dyed with 'indigo' .
It includes the full spectrum of colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, 'indigo' , and violet.
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.
The sheets are a dark 'indigo' blue, easily mistaken for black if there's nothing blue around to enhance the presence of that color.
Others planted truck gardens and sold corn, cotton, peanuts, sweet potatoes, tobacco, 'indigo' , watermelons, and gourds at the market for profit.
It has the familiar, but always appealing, 'indigo' and saffron colour scheme and wooden floor of many modern restaurants.
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.
the deepest 'indigo' of the horizon
The sky had vanished, the entire world was painted a dark 'indigo' .
The same options were available for dyeing the wool or cotton, which could be achieved using dyes such as madder, cochineal, and 'indigo' .
Later color theorists generally replaced 'indigo' and violet with just a single hue: purple or violet.
Coffee, sugar, cotton, and 'indigo' (a blue dye) from Haiti accounted for nearly one-half of France's foreign trade.
Indigo was also a significant earner of Chinese silver, but its replacement by synthetic Prussian blue brought the 'indigo' business to a disastrous end.
Its blue colorant is chemically identical to 'indigo' made from plants of the genus Indigofera, cultivated in Asia.
Blue colour was derived from 'indigo' while black was obtained from iron oxide.
A more accurate map shows a wash of differing hues of 'indigo' and violet, with some smatterings of infrared and ultraviolet at the extremes.
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.
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.
I could even make out the different 'indigo' and violet stripes, which is rare.
A proposal from 1822 that calls for the use of paper dyed with blue 'indigo' might be of help.
It was usually dyed with 'indigo' , a dye taken from plants in the Americas and India, which made jean cloth a dark blue colour.
The rest were different shades of blue, from sky blue to 'indigo' .
In the Colonial Era, chemical manufacturing was confined to such rudimentary products as 'indigo' dyes, naval stores, leather, glass, soap, and candles.
From it radiated directly the 'indigo' and rice plantations.
They were not blue, they were fiery cobalt, intense 'indigo' , smoldering sapphire, and they could change their appearance with her every varying emotion.
One corner of the obsidian has been cut and polished, and when held in the light it shimmers from 'indigo' to violet.
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.
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