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chained_bear commented on the word grana cochinilla
"It was big news, then, when Spain's conquistadors found the Aztecs selling an extraordinary red dyestuff in the great marketplaces of Mexico in 1519. Calling the dyestuff grana cochinilla or cochineal, the conquistadors shipped it back to Europe, where it produced the brightest, strongest red the Old World had ever seen."
Amy Butler Greenfield, A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire (New York: Harper Collins, 2005), 3.
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October 4, 2017