teinture

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French teinture. See the doublet tincture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪnt͡ʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪnt͡ʃʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪntjʊə(ɹ)/

Noun

teinture (plural teintures)

1. (obsolete) colour; tinge; tincture
   • 1799 May, “The Gleaner, No. VII”, in The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, page 324:

     Thy blithe vivacity, yet manners meek, Thy waving ringlets and thy step so light, The rosy teinture of thy dimpled cheek, Impress'd each heart with exquisite delight.

   • 1837, Charles Bucke, On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature, page 245:

     A boundless view, like that of the Atlantic, or Pacific; but destitute of the sound of the winds, the music of waters, the teinture of clouds, and the motion, which gives life and circulation to the most torpid of temperatures.

   • 1837, Hannah Maria Jones, The Pride of the Village; Or, The Farmer's Daughters, page 295:

     To Maria it was an epoch which seemed to be of the utmost importance to her future life—alas! how little did she dream that, in reality, it would decide what the teinture of that life was to be! —and some hours were spent in dressing for this momentous appearance, which, in both Maria and Mrs. Woodford's estimation, was not of less consequence than that of a first-rate beauty of the court circle.

   • 1890, “Appendix: Lodge's Rosalynde”, in Horace Howard Furness, editor, A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare - Volume 8, page 374:

     his eyes as bright as the burnishing of the heauen, darting foorth frownes with disdaine, and smiles with fauor, lightning such lookes as would enflame desire, were shee wrapt in the Circle of the frozen Zoane; in his cheekes the vermilion teinture of the Rose flourished vpon naturall Alabaster, the blush of the Morne and Lunaes siluer showe were so liuely portrayed, that the Troyan that fils out wine to Iupiter was not halfe so beautifull;

   • 1904 February, E. Ryves, “The Old Nurse: A Tragedy Without Acts”, in Womanhood, volume 11, number 63, page 143:

     He had called at her quiet cottage, and he liked the teinture of old family pride that sat upon her simpleness like a vellum volume, richly bound, upon a bare deal board.

   • 2016, Harry W. Paul, Bacchic Medicine, page 45:

     Otherwise, the doctor could administer a decoction of husks of nuts, quinine, sulphuric ether, and teinture of oranges.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French teinture, from Old French tainture, from Latin tinctūra, from tinctus the perfect passive participle of tingō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃.tyʁ/

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Noun

teinture f (plural teintures)

1. a liquid dye, colourant
2. a color, shade thus applied
3. a dying job, process
4. a solution in liquids such as alcohol, notably in pharmacy
5. (figuratively) a superficial knowledge

Derived terms

• teinturerie

Related terms

• teindre (verb)
• teint m, teinte f

Further reading

• “teinture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.