Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A purplish-red dye derived from certain lichens.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A purple or violet powder, used in dyeing violet, purple, and crimson, prepared from various species of lichens, especially from
Lecanora tartarea , which grows on rocks in northern Europe. - noun The plant Lecanora tartarea. Also called
cudweed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially
Lecanora tartarea . - noun (Bot.) A lichen (
Lecanora tartarea ), from which the powder is obtained.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A violet-red
powder , difficult tomoisten withwater , prepared from certainlichens , especially Lecanora tartarea, and used for making violet or purpledye . - noun botany A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens
Etymologies
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Examples
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Various species of _Lecanora_, particularly _L. tartarea_, known as cudbear, are used in dyeing woollen yarn.
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Cuthbert Gordon's petition to the Society of Artsincluded seventy-eight different samples of colors made from his discovery, cudbear, and he noted that certain quantities of this coloring material would make pompadour color. reference As a name for a color, pompadour first appeared in England in the mid 1750s.
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His technique improved the stability of the popular but fragile violets and purples this lichen produced. 1 Gordon, who was a merchant, and his brother, a coppersmith, formed a partnership to sell cudbear, supplying printers and dyers throughout Britain.
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In 1758, Cuthbert Gordon received a British patent for a substance he called cudbear, the result of a new processing method he developed for the traditional dyestuff orchil.
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One pound of cudbear will dye three pounds of wool a good pompadour, and nine pound does the same to twenty seven yards of superfine cloth.
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This strategy parallels our understanding of the production of colors in the workshop, where access to materials and skills lead to results with specific qualities — cudbear, for example, or Viquesnel's carmine, or the Spanish yellow the London colormaking firm Louis Berger made exclusively for the London-based artist's colorman James Newman. 9 This strategy recognizes the skill of the artisan as well.
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Specimens of varieties of the lichens used in the manufacture of cudbear, orchil and litmus, and of the substance obtained, were also shown in the British department, which were awarded prize medals.
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I found no less than three yielded beautiful purple-red colors, apparently as fine as orchil or cudbear, while the others furnished rich and dark tints of brownish-red, brown and olive-green.
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Their utility in the arts, and especially in dyeing -- including the collection of a series of the commercial dye lichens, _i. e._, those used by the manufacturers of London, &c., in the making of orchil, cudbear, litmus, and other lichen dyes.
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Archil may be regarded as the English, cudbear as the Scotch, and litmus as the Dutch name for one and the same substance, extracted from several species of lichens by various processes.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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