How To Use Alkanet In A Sentence
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She might have finished the look with saffron eye shadow and lip balm tinted with ocher and alkanet root.
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Old English names are (dyer's) alkanet and orcanet.
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She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood.
The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
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One of the plants we saw here was green alkanet, Pentaglottis sempervirens
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She might have finished the look with saffron eye shadow and lip balm tinted with ocher and alkanet root.
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Well-known dye-plants are included, among them dyer's alkanet, elderberry, henna, indigo, madder and saffron, and each plant is illustrated in colour.
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[3] Lit. "enamelled or painted with anchusa or alkanet," a plant, the wild bugloss, whose root yields a red dye.
The Economist
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The path snaked along the trackbed between banks of stitchwort, yellow archangel and sky-blue flowers of green alkanet.
Times, Sunday Times
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She might have finished the look with saffron eye shadow and lip balm tinted with ocher and alkanet root.
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Lit. “enamelled or painted with anchusa or alkanet,” a plant, the wild bugloss, whose root yields a red dye.
Oeconomicus
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A fine color is obtained by previously washing the alkanet with water and then thoroughly drying it before suspending it in the fat or oil.
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Rational Review
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She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood.
The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
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A wedding," said Cadfael seriously, stacking away jars of salves and bottles of lotion made from alkanet, anemone, mint, figwort, and the grains of oats and barley, most of them herbs of Venus and the moon, "a wedding is the crux of two lives, and therefore no mean matter.
The Leper of Saint Giles
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Lit. “enamelled or painted with anchusa or alkanet,” a plant, the wild bugloss, whose root yields a red dye.
Oeconomicus
