| 单词 | pencil blue |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspencil blue pencil blue n. Calico-printing (now historical) a blue dye obtained from indigo, used for painting in parts of a design; (also) the process in which this dye is used. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > other blues blue-green1659 water blue1723 king's blue1778 garter-blue1792 smalt-blue1794 pencil blue1815 stone-bluea1855 azuline1864 night-blue1868 canard1872 Labrador blue1873 electric1882 chasseur-blue1900 cornflower1907 petrol blue1913 larkspur1927 petrol1927 flow-blue1961 1815 S. Parkes Chem. Ess. II. 151 Pencil-blue is composed of the following ingredients, viz. Ten ounces of indigo finely ground in water;..the same quantity of potash of commerce, or the impure sub-carbonate of this alkali. 1860 C. O'Neill Chem. Calico Printing 337 Pencil Blue..receives its name from the manner in which it was applied to the cloth, viz., by means of a fibrous matter like an artist's pencil. 2001 P. Ball Bright Earth ix. 233 The introduction in the 1730s of the ‘English blue’ process, called ‘pencil blue’ in England. This enabled indigo to be printed directly on to cloth from metal plates. < as lemmas |
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