Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dyewood closely allied to bar-wood, from the same region, and apparently the product of another species of Baphia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
barwood .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
African hardwood tree , Baphia nitida, that is a form ofsandalwood
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye
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Examples
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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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The hair, always somewhat “kinky,” is anointed every morning with palm-oil, or the tallow-like produce of a jungle-nut; and, in full dress, it is copiously powdered with light red or bright yellow dust of pounded camwood, redwood, and various barks.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Still, she must have looked really engaging in a thin pattern of tattoo, a gauze work of oil and camwood, a dwarf pigeon tail of fan palm for an apron, and copper bracelets and anklets.
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Of dyes and dyewoods, she has indigo, camwood, harwood, and the materials for the best blue, brown, red, and yellow colors.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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In the case of the natural dye-stuffs -- logwood, fustic, Persian berries, Brazil wood, camwood, cochineal, quercitron, cutch, etc. -- which belong to this group of
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech
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Is a coarse kind of lake, produced by dyeing chalk or whitening with decoction of Brazil wood, peachwood, sapan, bar, camwood, &c.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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_Wine Color: _ -- For five pounds of goods, camwood two pounds; boil fifteen minutes and dip the goods one-half hour; boil again and dip one-half hour then darken with blue vitriol one and one-half ounces; if not dark enough, add copperas one-half ounce.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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Another plan which has been followed is to give the wool a bottom with 5 to 6 lb. of camwood or peachwood, then mordanting and dyeing us usual.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech
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_Snuff Brown, Dark: _ -- For five pounds of goods, camwood one pound; boil it fifteen minutes; then dip the goods three-fourths of an hour; take them out and add to the dye two and one-half pounds fustic; boil ten minutes, and dip the goods three-fourths of an hour; then add blue vitriol one ounce, copperas four ounces; dip again one-half hour.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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Red comes next to this which is mostly obtained of camwood, another domestic employment of the women.
Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Martin Robinson Delany
chained_bear commented on the word camwood
"The story of Bunce Island began in the seventeenth century, when English traders arrived at the Sierra Leone coast to buy ivory, as well as camwood, a tree used to make red dye. In 1663, King Charles II charterd a company called the Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa, with instructions to imitate the Dutch and Portuguese, that is, to buy people in addition to timber. The company put up two forts, but when one of them was seized by a Dutch admiral, the English moved to what was then known as Bence (or Bense) Island, probably after a squire named Bence, who had links to the London firm. The spelling of the place would later change to 'Bance,' still later, to 'Bunce.'"
—Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family (NY: Ballantine Books, 1998), 427
October 13, 2009