Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

indian red

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.77 in modern English

Syllables: in-di-an red
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a variety of red or purple pigments containing ferric oxide, found in natural earth or made by chemical methods like calcinating green copperas.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Any of a variety of red or purple pigments containing ferric oxide, found in natural earth or made by chemical methods like calcinating green copperas.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The colour of Indian red pigment: a variety of dark, purplish reds.

Countable; Uncountable

adj

Having the colour of Indian red pigment.

Example Sentences

"Bradly paid no attention to either intrusion on his meditations, which at that moment were deeply concerned with adding Payne's grey to a combination of cobalt and Indian red for keying down his palette in the treatment of light reflected on water."

Etymology

1672 pigment, c. 1810–27 colour and adjective. Indian + red, the pigment originally being an earth obtained from the East Indies.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Indian reds (plural) Indian-red (alternative) India red (alternative)

Phrases

native Indian red

Questions

What does indian red mean?: Any of a variety of red or purple pigments containing ferric oxide, found in natural earth or made by chemical methods like calcinating green copperas.
Where does indian red come from?: 1672 pigment, c. 1810–27 colour and adjective. Indian + red, the pigment originally being an earth obtained from the East Indies.

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