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ˈbow-dye
[Named from Bow near Stratford in Essex, where dyers particularly carried on their works in the 17th c. (Bow took its name from the single-arched bridge built there across the Lea in the reign of Henry I, to replace the ford of the old Roman Road which gave name to Stratford, and Old Ford; cf. bow n.1 3.)]
A scarlet dye; also attrib. or as adj. Hence bow-dye v., to dye scarlet; bow-dyed ppl. a.; bow-dyer.
a1659Cleveland Obsequies 9 Or can his Bloud Bow-die th' Egyptian Sand. 1676H. Teonge Diary (1825) 151 Flemingoes flye all about..they are blew and bow-dye. 1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2346/4, 3 pieces of Bow-dy'd Serges. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 51 The Invention of the Scarlet or Bow-dye. 1703Art's Improv. 13 As to the fading of the Bow-Die, and the Water-colours. 1745De Foe Eng. Tradesm. iv. (1841) I. 25 He goes in partner with C. D., a scarlet-dyer, called a bow-dyer, at Wandsworth. |