woadedadj.
/ˈwəʊdᵻd/, U.S. /ˈwoʊdəd/ 1. Of cloth or wool: dyed or coloured with woad (now chiefly historical). Of a person or human body: painted or adorned with blue body paint or dye made from woad; cf. woad n.1 2b (now rare).
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1540 Sir G. Botolf Let. 25 Mar. in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/9/59) f. 77 By for me won ell of the fynest and best coloryd or woddyd carceye.
1579 Coll. Statutes f. 139/1 Cork may bee vsed in dying vppon woaded wooll, and also in dying of al such cloth that is onely made of woded wooll.
1779 R. Kelham Dict. Norman 132/2 Lain waidez, woaded wool.
1820 R. Southey Life Wesley I. ix. 306 The Picts were apparently an unconverted tribe of indigenous savages, still tattooed and woaded.
1838 Spectator 24 Nov. 1121/3 (advt.) He..uses none but the very best Saxony Woaded Cloths.
?1870 R. Wilson Atheism Refuted 30 Their ladies have no covering for their fair bodies but a woaded tracery of herbs or flowers.
1894 Times 14 May 4/3 Some good parcels of woaded wool serges.
1900 C. Whibley Pageantry of Life 8 Our woaded, touzle-headed ancestor.
1916 Living Age 9 Dec. 632/1 Woaded cloth is still known in the trade, but has no particular reputation, and is more black than blue.
1997 J. D. Mallinson Evidence of Time 13 The wary, woaded Picts Retreated deep into the loch At the haste of Latin strangers.
2009 M. Hayward Rich Apparel iv. 97 A letter with 24 dyed wool samples attached to it, including 8 of woaded wool.
2. Designating a colour, esp. black, that results from dyeing cloth or wool that has previously been dyed with woad; cf. woading n. 1. Also: designating a dye which has a basis of woad or is made from woad. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [adjective] > process or technique
woaded1579
galled1581
overdyeda1616
wool-dyed1832
piece-dyed1841
chromed1876
yarn-dyed1885
yūzen1902
box-coloured1903
tie-dyed1903
after-chrome1904
batik1914
vat-dyed1946
premetallized1949
spun-dyed1955
spin-dyed1963
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 85 As a deepe woded dye, which went to the bottome, and pearced into the tender wolle.
1580–1 Act 23 Elizabeth I c. 9 in Statutes of Realm (1819) IV. 671 A good true and perfitte couler of woaded and mathered Blacke.
1613 J. May Declar. Estate of Clothing 30 The diers of London doe best obserue a true course in setting a woaded seale vpon woaded colours.
1615 S. Ward Coal from Altar 24 The set vp blewes haue made strangers loath the rich oaded blewes.
1653 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved (new ed.) xxxv. 227 Woad..layes the foundation for the solidity of very many colours more: A Woaded colour is free from stayning.
1727 Abstr. Acts passed 5th Session of 6th Parl. Great Brit. 56/1 If..any Person shall..dye Black any Cloths, Long Ells, Bay, or other Woollen Goods, for woaded Blacks, not being woaded throughout, he shall forfeit [etc.].
1778 J. Haigh Dyer's Assistant i. xvi. 149 Oil of Vitriol is so useful a Thing in Dying, that any Colour, save woaded Blue or Green, may, by the Help of its Acid, be brought to a fine Claret, Black not excepted.
1835 Boston Courier 27 July Superfine woaded Brown, Purple, Rifle, and Black Sables for over coats.
1869 A. Macdonald Love, Law & Theol. iv. 66 All married men cannot sport the glossy woaded blacks of the unique Webster, which usually adorn the backs of youthful Sneakers.
1922 Textile Colorist July 444/1 To produce a modern woaded black, one applies a bottom of indigo.
1996 D. R. Uhlman in L. C. Lambdin & R. T. Lambdin Chaucer's Pilgrims xvi. 182 Woaded green..was produced by first woading the cloth, then boiling it in alum and tartar.., and finally immersing it in a vat of prepared weld.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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