lac-dye

The roughly-prepared coating is imported in two forms, called lac-lake and lac-dye, which contain about 50 per cent of colouring matter, combined with more or less resin, and with earthy matters, consisting chiefly of carbonate and sulphate of lime and silica.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

Verily, during the absence of my husband I never use collyrium, or ornaments; I never wash myself properly or use garlands and unguents, or deck my feet with lac-dye, or person with ornaments.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

A similar objection is held to the purveying of lac-dye as shown in the article on Lakhera.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

But if he be wise and puts on what mankind can bear, say three mites per pound, then he sells tons and tons at this fractional profit on each pound, and makes fourteen thousand pounds by lac-dye or the like of which you and I thought creation held thirty or at most thirty-two pounds.

It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849

This done mercator raises the price of lac-dye or what not throughout Europe.

It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849

Then at an appointed day all the men n.g. t.d. and c. begin gradually, secretly, cannily, to buy up in all those places all the lac-dye or something of the kind that you and I thought there was about thirty pounds of in creation.

It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849