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anatta, anatto|əˈnætə, əˈnætəʊ|
Also 7–9 arnotto, 8 annotta, 8–9 arnatto, anotta, annotto, annatto.
[? a. native American name.]
An orange-red dye, procured in Central America from the waxy pulp surrounding the seeds of the Bixa orellana; used in dyeing, and for colouring cheese.
a1682Sir W. Petty in Sprat Hist. R. Soc. 299 (T.) Arnotto dyeth of itself an orange-colour. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 226 Otta or Anatta, is a red sort of Dye. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Annotto, in commerce, a kind of red dye, brought from the West Indies. 1770W. Guthrie Geog. (T.) Arnatto is mixed up by the Spanish Americans with their chocolate. 1784Twamley Dairying 64 Spanish-Annatto..is much the best for Cheese-colouring. 1791Hamilton Berthollet's Dyeing I. Introd. 20 Substances..useful in dyeing..anotta, logwood. Ibid. II. 130 Annotta. 1850Hawthorne Scarlet Let. (1851) 25 Pepper-bags, and baskets of anatto. 1852T. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. I. ix. 308 His skin besmeared with annatto. 1863H. W. Bates Nat. on Amazons vi. 138 The red [tints are made] with the seeds of the Urucú, or Anatto plant. 1866Treas. Bot., Anotta or Arnotto. 1870Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 212 Good arnotto is of the colour of fire. |