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单词 chouan
释义 chouan, n.2 Obs.
[F. chouan, in same sense.]
The seed of Anabasis tamariscifolia used to mix with carmine.
1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs (1725) 2 Of the Chouan in French, or carmine seed.1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Chouan..called by some also carmine seed..a very light and chaffy seed..of an acid taste, and a yellowish green colour, but is larger than worm-seed..It is called green worm seed, in our catalogues.1764T. H. Croker, etc. Dict. Arts, Chouan..the Levant name for the seed of a species of santolina, known among us by that of carmine-seed, from its being often used in the preparation of that drug.1791Hamilton Berthollet's Dyeing II. ii. iii. 180. 1819 Rees Cycl. s.v. Cochineal, The French add to the infusion of cochineal a small proportion of..chouan..from the Levant.
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