woad in English

noun
1
a yellow-flowered European plant of the cabbage family. It was formerly grown as a source of blue dye, which was extracted from the leaves after they had been dried, powdered, and fermented.
The distinctive blue dye used by the Picts to tattoo themselves came from the woad plant, which grows wild in the North of Britain.

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1. Plants used in dyeing - Woad, Weld, Madder, Sumach.

2. Bastard-Rocket, dyers-weed, or wild woad, a species of Reseda

3. Bastard-Rocket, dyers-weed, or wild woad, a species of Reseda

4. However, France and Germany outlawed imported indigo in the 16th century to protect the local woad dye industry.

5. When they paint their faces in the blue woad, it is more than just a decoration.

6. Greenhouse gases are produced by a large range of natural and man-made processes throughout the woAd.

7. For example, the woad plant produced a blue dye (1), the weld plant a yellow dye (2), and the madder plant a red dye.

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9. Their bare flesh is heavily decorated with tattoos made by their women with the dye of madder and woad, using the pinpricks of bone needles.

10. Woollen cloth, mordanted with alum, was dyed yellow with dyer's greenweed, then dipped into a vat of blue dye (woad or, later, indigo) to produce the once-famous "Kendal Green" (largely superseded by the brighter "Saxon Green" in the 1770s).