Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A red dyewood obtained from Sierra Leone and Angola, Africa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A red wood of a leguminous tree (
Baphia nitida ), from Angola and the Gabon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The red
wood of aleguminous African tree , Baphia nitida, used as adyewood and forramrods ,violin bows andturner 's work.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Woodshades fencing comes in a variety of styles and barwood, cedar, and redwood colors.
International Builders' Show Product Preview: Woodshades Composite Fencing 2009
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Woodshades fencing comes in a variety of styles and barwood, cedar, and redwood colors.
International Builders' Show Product Preview: Woodshades Composite Fencing 2009
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Other exports are caoutchouc, ebony (of which the best comes from the Congo), and camwood or barwood (a Tephrosia).
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Camwood, red sanders wood, barwood, and other dye woods, are found in great quantities in many parts of Africa.
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Sappan wood is £4 higher than last year; barwood has risen cent per cent; logwoods are £2 per ton higher.
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There are a number of dye-stuffs or colouring matters like alizarine, logwood, fustic, barwood, cutch, resorcine green, etc., which have no affinity for the cotton fibre, and of themselves will not dye it.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech
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Gaboon barwood is another variety of this dyewood which is imported from the west coast of Africa, in straight flat pieces, from three to, five feet in length; the average annual import being about 2,000 tons, of the value of £4 a ton.
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A woaded color, for example, is only fast in respect of the vat indigo which it contains, and yet how frequent is the custom to unite with the indigo such dyes as barwood, orchil, and indigo-carmine, the fugitive character of which I have pointed out.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Various
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The traffic consists chiefly of ivory, barwood (a wood much used in dyeing), and indiarubber.
The Gorilla Hunters 1859
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Other exports are caoutchouc, ebony (of which the best comes from the Congo), and camwood or barwood (a Tephrosia).
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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