camwood
- noun
- UK
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camwood
- The craftsmen in the village collect camwood from the local trees to enhance their traditional artworks.
- camwood paste
- red camwood
Examples
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Decorated with camwood paste, these women engaged in empowering rites at a shrine in a forest grove (ibid., p. 241).
Academic text (2008) -
For the ceremony, the dancers adorned themselves with patterns made from camwood paste.
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Moreover, his body is red with generously applied camwood paint.
Academic text (2007) -
Traces of indigo are visible in the elaborate coiffures, and an encrustation of red camwood appears in several areas on the figures.
Academic text (2000) -
The chief's feet are rubbed with red camwood paste, a symbol of fertility, and his legs are painted with yellow ejongo paste.
Academic text (2008) -
A man, reddened with camwood to signify his heightened ritual state, represents Boupere (Fig. 20).
Academic text (2003) -
The carver may attach raffia to the mask or paint it with charcoal or river sediment (black), ochres or camwood (red), or kaolin (white).
Academic text (1994) -
The artisan used camwood to create a vibrant red dye for his fabric designs.
Synonyms
A small shrubby West African tree with hard wood people use to make red dye
A small African bush with hard red wood that people use to make dye
A tropical tree with heavy red wood that people use to make furniture and red dye
A tropical tree with a prickly trunk and dense red wood used for dye
A tropical tree with hard reddish wood used to make dyes and violin bows
Hard red wood from a tropical tree with a prickly trunk used for cabinets and dye
A tree from India with hard fragrant wood and dark red inner wood used for dye
A tree from India with hard, fragrant wood used for furniture and red dye
A tree from India and Southeast Asia that has hard dark red wood used for furniture and dye
Hard red wood that people use for furniture and cabinets
Very hard brown wood from a tropical tree used to make deep purple dye
A tree from India whose bark people use to make brown dye and medicine
Wood used to make dye for coloring cloth
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word camwood comes from an older local name for the tree, shown as cam, plus English wood meaning 'wood'. So camwood points to a West African tree whose hard, red wood is used to make a bright red dye.
