Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
arnotto .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
annotto .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
annatto , adye
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Examples
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As a dye, its manner of fixing upon fibre is different from that of any other colouring matter; requiring no mordant, like madder or cochineal, and needing no solution, like indigo or anotta, but fixing at once as soon as the cloth is brought into contact with it.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Very red cheese should be looked upon with suspicion, for although the admixture of anotta is in no way detrimental to health provided the drug be pure, it is commonly adulterated with red lead and ochre.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Turmeric, saffron, anotta, are about the only representatives, and these are not of much importance in wool dyeing by themselves, although they are sometimes used in conjunction with other natural dye-stuffs, when they are applied by a process which is adapted more especially for the other dye-stuff which is used.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech
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For some of the natural colours, turmeric, saffron, anotta, etc., and for the neutral and basic coal-tar colours it has a direct affinity, and will combine with them from their aqueous solutions.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech
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Several instances are on record that Gloucester and other cheeses have been found contaminated with red lead, through having been coloured with anotta containing it, and that this contamination has produced serious consequences.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Annotto, Annatto, Arnotto, Arnotta, Terra Orellana, Rocou, &c., is met with in commerce under the names of cake anotta, and flag or roll anotta.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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_Bixine_ is a purified extract of anotta made in France, and used by dyers.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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However, it is merely made from anotta; [*] though a composition of carrots and marigold is at times substituted for it.
The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871
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_Salmon Color_ is made by boiling arnotto or anotta in soapsuds.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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On subsequent inquiries, through a circuitous channel, unnecessary to be detailed here at length, on the part of the manufacturer of the cheese, it was found, that as the supplies of anotta had been defective and of inferior quality, recourse had been had to the expedient of colouring the commodity with vermilion.
A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy Friedrich Christian Accum 1803
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