French purple
English
Noun
French purple (usually uncountable, plural French purples)
- A dyestuff obtained from certain lichen known as orchella weeds, used for colouring woollen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants.
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See also
- orcein (archil, orchil, lacmus)
- archil lichen (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- orcinol
Further reading
French purple on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
