Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having color that will not run or fade with washing or wear.
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- adjective Having
colors that have beendyed orapplied to thematerial in a way that will prevent them from beingwashed out ,running , orfading .
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- adjective having color that is resistant to fading or running
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sew Take A Hike offers a WashableLabel Tutorial using printable fabric with tips for making labels colorfast and washable.
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Most of these products are identified as "colorfast" by the manufacturer.
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Most of these products are identified as "colorfast" by the manufacturer.
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Did you know that beginning in the 1880s women had been willing to pay extra for Turkey Red thread for redwork embroidery because unlike most colors, it was colorfast?
Redwork stitches.... Gumbo Lily 2010
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Did you know that beginning in the 1880s women had been willing to pay extra for Turkey Red thread for redwork embroidery because unlike most colors, it was colorfast?
Archive 2010-05-01 Gumbo Lily 2010
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To make natural fabrics, like cotton and silk, colorfast HP and a few of the above tutorials recommend using Bubble Jet Set 2000.
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When I do a drawing, I keep the original in my portfolio (nice, dark place), and make color copies (much more colorfast) for sale.
Using Magic Markers - From the Drug Store Specials to Professional Artists' Markers 2007
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The cheaper markers that you find in the drug store or just about anywhere are good for accents at times but many aren't very colorfast so they may bleach out eventually.
Using Magic Markers - From the Drug Store Specials to Professional Artists' Markers 2007
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Boet Brinkgreve, bio-based-materials business manager at DuPont in Geneva, says Bio-PDO is replacing oil-based polymers in a fabric called Sorona, making it softer, lighter, stretchier and more colorfast than petroleum-based materials.
Corn on the Catwalk 2007
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The dyes are reputed to be colorfast and should not run.
When in India, buy rugs! Pat 2006
mharrsch commented on the word colorfast
I am an author and recently wrote a headline for my blogpost about how the ancients used mordants to make fabrics colorfast. I used colorfast as a verb and got nailed for it up on Facebook. My headline read:
How did the ancients colorfast their textiles? I was informed by a reader that colorfast should only be used as an adjective. I think the process by which something is made colorfast should be colorfast used as a verb!
October 15, 2015
bilby commented on the word colorfast
How did the ancients make their textiles colorfast?
October 18, 2015
bilby commented on the word colorfast
Because colorfast is not a recognised verb - you already got pinged on that - the alternatives are to either use a non-marked version like mine or put up with the umbrage.
October 18, 2015