indigo
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- noun
- /ˈɪndɪɡoʊ/
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- The fabric was dyed with indigo, giving it a rich and vibrant blue color.
- indigo dye
- indigo-dyed cloth
- indigo-dyed cotton
He went to Saint Petersburg, made megabucks trading in indigo.
- He went to Saint Petersburg, made megabucks trading in indigo.
Examples
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For years... the landlords have ordered us... to grow indigo... for dyeing cloth.
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An Amazigh woman from the Anti-Atlas region wears an indigo-dyed wrap-around garment held together by fibulae at her shoulders.
Academic text (2006) -
There were new higher duties placed on coffee, on indigo, on certain kinds of wine.
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This is wash and it's a mixture of indigo, black and water.
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If we cut through that indigo field, the plantation is only a mile away.
Fiction book (1994) -
The cloth is dyed with indigo several times, and powdered indigo is beaten into the cloth, giving it luster.
Academic text (2006) -
The artisan made beautiful tapestries using natural indigo sourced from local plants.
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To achieve the desired hue, the cloth is submerged in a dye bath of indigo repeatedly.
Synonyms
A blue dye from indigo plants or made in factories to color cloth
A blue dye that people make from indigo plants or in factories
Compounds
A North American plant that lives for many years with spikes of blue flowers and gray-green leaves
A large nonvenomous snake with shiny blue-black skin that lives in the southeastern United States
- Specialized
A North American shrub with blue or purple flowers often grown in gardens
A North American plant with blue-violet star-shaped flowers that lives for many years
A small North American songbird with bright blue feathers on the male during breeding season
- US
A large dark blue nonvenomous snake in southern North America and Mexico that often enters burrows
- US
A North American plant with blue, white, or yellow flowers that grows in prairies and open woods
Surface Forms
Etymology
Indigo comes from an old word indicum meaning 'from India', because the deep blue dye first came to Europe from India. That's why indigo refers to the dark blue dye made from plants.