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Woad

noun

(Written also wad, and wade)

A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant.

Any of several herbs of the genus Isatis.

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"Woad" Quotes from Famous Books

... do so. The once proud supremacy of Venice and of Genoa was gone; the former sank as Lisbon rose and the latter, who held her own at least as a money market until 1540, was about that time surpassed, though she was never wholly superseded, by Antwerp. Italy exported wheat, flax, woad and other products, but chiefly by land routes or in foreign keels. Nor was France able to take any great part in maritime trade. Content with the freight brought her by other nations, she sent out few {526} expeditions, and those few, like that of James Cartier, had ...

— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... common materials, in the Highlands of Scotland, to some of the cloths which were exhibited, should lead our botanists and chemists to examine, more closely than they have hitherto done, the dye-stuffs that might be extracted from British plants. Woad (Isatis tinctoria) and the dyers' yellow woad (Reseda lutea), are both well known. A piece of tweed, spun and woven in Ross-shire, was dyed brown and black, by such cheap and common dyes as moss and alder bark, and the ...

— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

Words linked to "Woad" : dyestuff, Isatis tinctoria, herb, Isatis, herbaceous plant, dye, dyer's woad, genus Isatis