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Brazil it is called "urucu," whence the French name "rocou;" and the
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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In Brazil it is called "urucu," whence the French name
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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The Chief was decked out in a new and splendid feather dress, his face had received a fresh coat of paint (in fact, the shells of the _urucu_ plant with which he coloured his face and body scarlet were still lying under his hammock), and his nose was supplied with a new set of _mutum_ feathers.
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It is then customary to take the remaining skeleton and let it dry in the sun, after which it is rubbed with the juice of the _urucu_ plant
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As a rule they had woven mats made of grass-fibre and coloured with the juices of the _urucu_ plant and the _genipapa_, but in many instances they had skins of jaguars, and, which was more frequent, the furs of the three-toed sloths.
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They were always decorated symbolically with juices of the scarlet _urucu_ and the black _genipapa_.
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Indian name of pirarucu is given to it from the native words _pira_, fish, and _urucu_, red; in allusion, says Mr Bates, to the red colour of the borders of its scales.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Shortly after receiving this information I made a trip to the Port of Spain General Market and found a bottle of the stuff being sold by a local vendor who called it urucu
TriniGourmet.com 2008
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The Bororos made considerable use of the _urucu_ plant (_Bixa orellana_
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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Rocou, the term commonly used by the French, is derived from the Brazilian word, urucu.]
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