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Dyestuff   /dˈaɪstˌəf/   Listen
Dyestuff

noun
1.
A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.  Synonym: dye.






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"Dyestuff" Quotes from Famous Books



... was also a matter of government encouragement. In 1485 a law was passed declaring that wines of the duchies of Guienne and Gascony should be imported only in vessels which were English property and manned for the most part by Englishmen. In 1489 woad, a dyestuff from southern France, was included, and it was ordered that merchandise to be exported from England or imported into England should never be shipped in foreign vessels if sufficient English vessels were in the harbor at the time. Although this policy was abandoned ...
— An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England • Edward Potts Cheyney



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