turkey blue
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.46 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Silk is dyed blue with indigo alone, without any proportion of woad... with ſix pounds of bran, and about twelve ounces of madder... half a pound of madder for each pound of potaſh, renders the vat greener, and produces a more fixed colour in the ſilk... it is wrung out, and expoſed to the air, that the green colour may change to a blue... Some addition is required to be made to the indigo, to give ſilk a deep blue... For the Turkey blue, which is the deepeſt, a ſtrong bath of archil is firſt prepared. Conchineal is alſo ſometimes uſed, inftead of archil, for the ground, to render the colour more permanent."
- "The blues are divided by dyers into five, light blue, sky blue, middle blue, king's blue, Turkey''' blue. The two last require a previous ground of archil."
- "The bales for the Tunis market should be assorted as under... 9 pieces Turkey blues [per] 50 pieces..."
Etymology
From the manner of preparing indigo practiced in the Ottoman Empire ("Turkey"). Doublet of turquoise blue.
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Synonyms
Turkey
Turkey color