Meaning of Indian red | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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
2. Specifically, iron saffron.
   countable, uncountable
3. The colour of Indian red pigment: a variety of dark, purplish reds.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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