Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dyed or colored blue with woad.
- Produced by means of woad, or by a mixture of woad with other dyes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Colored or stained with woad.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Coloured or stained with
woad . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
woad .
Etymologies
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Examples
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-- This is sometimes called woaded black, and has an excellent reputation as a fast black.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech
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But I agree that the Latin "Picti" meaning "Painted" may have been a mere coincidence as the Romans would have been more than familiar with woaded savages before reaching Pictland a name we could now translate as "Landland" oddly enough.
The Picts (or Cruithne, or Albans): What's in a name? Carla 2007
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A woaded color, for example, is only fast in respect of the vat indigo which it contains, and yet how frequent is the custom to unite with the indigo such dyes as barwood, orchil, and indigo-carmine, the fugitive character of which I have pointed out.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Various
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We shall say this year, with exactly the same accents of relief and hope as our pagan ancestors used, and as the woaded savage used: "The days will begin to lengthen now!"
The Feast of St. Friend Arnold Bennett 1899
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I would not mind Mr. Noyes putting himself lyrically into the woaded skin of our ancestors.
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899
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