Turkey redn.
a. A brilliant and permanent red colour produced on cotton goods, essentially a madder red in combination with oil or fat, with an aluminous mordant. Also called Adrianople or Levant red. Also attributive.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > bright red or scarlet
cockea1382
coccyn1382
coctin1382
vermiliona1400
scarlet-redc1405
sinoper1412
scarletc1440
sinople?c1450
vermeletc1530
lusty gallant1587
vermeil1590
vermeil red1590
minium1601
cinnabar?1614
cochineal1632
poppy red1679
poppy colour1705
cherry-colour1720
ponceau1782
Turkey red1789
pinkc1791
coquelicot1795
poppy1796
cherry-red1802
vermilion-red1815
cardinal scarlet1828
geranium1842
dahlia1846
cardinal red1850
cerise1858
cardinal1874
scarlet-crimson1882
vermilion-scarlet1882
pillar box1894
Turkish red1900
signal red1909
fuchsia1923
the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs
madderOE
grain1335
alkanet1343
Brazilc1386
crop-maddera1399
red-scarletc1400
alcanna?a1425
lac?c1425
madder root?c1450
incarnationa1475
jarecork1483
orchil1483
mull1507
orcanet1548
Bristol-red1551
red sanders1553
cochineal1582
safflower1583
chay1588
Pernambuco1595
red sanderswood1598
redwood1634
peach woodc1638
scarlet1653
mesteque1667
bow-dye1676
sylvester1697
corkir1703
gamene1703
orchilla1703
crap1721
saffranon1731
kino1788
Turkey red1789
lizary1791
granilla1812
munjeet1813
rubiate1835
orcein1838
purpurin1839
ruby wood1843
sassafrid1852
aal1853
pink salt1853
magenta1860
fuchsine1865
paeonin1865
safranine1868
corallin1873
marina1874
Magdala red1875
alizarin1878
eosin1879
Turkey red oil1879
roccelline1880
ponceau1885
amarant1888
phloxine1890
hypernic1897
Turkish red1900
Lithol red1930
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 1 19 Dying Turkey red.
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 168 A whole month's labour is scarcely sufficient to terminate the different operations thought necessary to obtain the fine Turkey red, called Adrianople.
1799 Monthly Rev. 30 561 The art of dyeing cotton scarlet, or turkey-red, was imported into France by Greek families.
1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 393/2 Turkey-Red, Levant-Red and Adrianople-Red, the names indifferently given to that beautiful red dye which distinguishes the cotton manufactured in the Ottoman empire.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 545 P. J. Papillon established a dyehouse at Glasgow, for giving to cotton-yarn that beautiful colour known by the name of Turkey or Adrianople red.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 396 The first Turkey-red work in Great Britain was established about 50 years ago in Glasgow by M. Papillon.
1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. ii. 74 About a century ago some Greek dyers were invited to settle in France, where they introduced the art of Turkey-red dyeing.
1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4329 Turkey red goods.
1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4340 Turkey red plain and printed cottons.
1877 O'Neill in Encycl. Brit. VII. 576/1.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 10 Aug. 2/1 Before the days of Turkey-red-dyeing and calico-printing.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 2 Dec. 9/1 It is a turkey-red dyeing firm.
b. Cotton cloth of this colour.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > coloured, patterned, or printed > specific
pintadoa1575
Salempore1598
chintz1614
nankeenc1700
caffa1701
jamwar1721
nankinett1794
purdah1813
zephyr1819
nankeening1830
calico1841
permanent1854
galatea1874
Madras gingham1880
Turkey red1880
Madras1897
shadow cretonne1932
shadow stripe1932
1880 J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 72 For pink blottings furnish two thirds of white cottons and one third of turkey reds.
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 503 Turkey Red, a cotton cambric, of a bright scarlet colour of indelible dye,..originally imported from Turkey.
c. Turkey red oil n. (also Turkey-red, turkey Red Oil) sulphonated castor oil, principally used with alizarin to produce the colour Turkey red.
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > organic dyes > [noun] > colouring red
alizarin1827
santalin1833
orcein1838
purpurin1839
indin1841
isatin1845
roseine1859
aurin1869
Turkey red oil1879
phenosafranine1883
rhodamine1888
azaleine1889
phloxine1890
pyronin1895
primuline red1900
the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs
madderOE
grain1335
alkanet1343
Brazilc1386
crop-maddera1399
red-scarletc1400
alcanna?a1425
lac?c1425
madder root?c1450
incarnationa1475
jarecork1483
orchil1483
mull1507
orcanet1548
Bristol-red1551
red sanders1553
cochineal1582
safflower1583
chay1588
Pernambuco1595
red sanderswood1598
redwood1634
peach woodc1638
scarlet1653
mesteque1667
bow-dye1676
sylvester1697
corkir1703
gamene1703
orchilla1703
crap1721
saffranon1731
kino1788
Turkey red1789
lizary1791
granilla1812
munjeet1813
rubiate1835
orcein1838
purpurin1839
ruby wood1843
sassafrid1852
aal1853
pink salt1853
magenta1860
fuchsine1865
paeonin1865
safranine1868
corallin1873
marina1874
Magdala red1875
alizarin1878
eosin1879
Turkey red oil1879
roccelline1880
ponceau1885
amarant1888
phloxine1890
hypernic1897
Turkish red1900
Lithol red1930
1879 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 36 187 This ‘Turkey-red oil’ is a mixture of sulpho-ricinoleate and sulpho-pyroterebate of sodium.
1903 L. A. Flemming Pract. Tanning 410 Oil tanning with Turkey-red oil.
1980 K. G. Ponting Dict. Dyes & Dyeing (1981) 172/2 John Mercer did a great deal of research on the production of the necessary turkey red oil produced by the action of sulphuric acid on castor oil.
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