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cochin

[ US /ˈkoʊtʃɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs

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  • A swarm of princesses totter on stage, got up like topiary on legs in every shade of scarlet, crimson, cerise, cochineal, each foolishly imagining Prince Charming must choose her as his red queen. Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
  • As trade with the New World increased, cochineal became the standard dye for a wide variety of uses, from the red coats of British soldiers, to the red tints of artists' paints and the coloring of pastry icings.
  • Traditional red colouring includes kermes and cochineal, both of which are pigments made by crushing masses of tiny insects.
  • —On June eighteenth, M. Doléris informed me that a woman had been confined at the Cochin Hospital five days before and that fears were entertained as to the results of an operation that had been performed, it having been necessary to do an embryotomy. On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases
  • “Just come and sit over here, hospitaler of Cochin, ” said Eugène. 1503 Paras. 1500–1599
  • The customer relations representative assured us that carmine and cochineal are natural colors, and correctly so.
  • The Aztecs cultivated cochineal and produced a red dye that was the brightest and strongest color Europe had ever seen.
  • The choice of coloring materials was as critical here as it was in creating any other kind of color diagram: reference Le Blon recommended the use of a red lake made from cochineal or brazilwood, Prussian blue reference, and yellow berries (stil de grain), but the quality of the coloring materials was as important as their sources. 16 Black was made by combining the three colors and the paper support provided white. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images Indian ground staff removed plastic covers from the cricket field before the start of the first One Day International between India and Australia in Cochin, Oct 17. India in Pictures
  • In the case of the natural dye-stuffs -- logwood, fustic, Persian berries, Brazil wood, camwood, cochineal, quercitron, cutch, etc. -- which belong to this group of The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
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