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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A direct cotton coal-tar color of the disazo type, derived from diamidoazoxy-toluene, which dyes unmordanted cotton red in an alkaline salt bath. Also called rosophenine, rock scarlet, St. Denis red, and Trona red.

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