10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAFFRON YELLOW»
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Saffron the
Yellow Fairy
When Rachel and Kirsty meet on the ferry to Rainspell Island one summer holiday, they have no idea that such incredible adventures with the fairies await them! in this third book in the series, Rachel and Kirsty follow the buzzing bees to ...
Constituents: According to Bouillon, Vogel, and others, — 1, Volatile oil (saffron
oil), white, concrete, floating on water; and a liquid oil, yellow, sinking to the
bottom. 2. Polychroite, saffron substance, and saffron yellow (100 parts yielded 6
5), ...
3
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory
34 As a culturally freighted color, saffron yellow linked luxury and contaminating
waste; at the same time, it was seen as originating with England's traditional
enemies, Spain, Ireland, and France,35 all seats of "the whore of Babylon.
Ann Rosalind Jones, Peter Stallybrass, 2000
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Elephant's Breath and London Smoke
U Royal English DictionaryU, 1775 Saffron, 1814 – Saffron Yellow, is gamboge
yellow with gallstone yellow, about equal parts of each. UWerner's Nomenclature
of ColoursU, 1814 Saffron, 1828 – A dress of embroidered muslin, of a light ...
... as saffron yellow 30% and saffron red about 0.5%. A pinch of saffron placed in
water expands immediately and the yellow colour diffuses. This dye is not
persistent unless treated with a mordant, as noted. Good-quality saffron should
be less ...
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Taste Buds and Molecules: The Art and Science of Food, Wine, ...
THE YELLOWAPPLE: A COUSIN TO SAFFRON Like saffron, yellow apples such
as Golden Delicious owe their yellow color to their richness in carotenoids, in
particular betacarotene. (Red apples owe their color modly to anthocyanins, ...
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Colorants for Non-Textile Applications
In China, saffron yellow robes were reserved for the emperor - the mythical first
emperor called himself the 'Yellow Emperor' - and the Buddhist monks. But the
Chinese dyed with other colouring matters, including yellow gardenia (wongshy)
...
H.S. Freeman, A.T. Peters, 2000
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Introduction to the Study of Language: A Critical Survey of ...
"You Phrygians love garments dyed in saffron and gaudy purple, sleeved tunics,
fillets round the head, and inaction," cries Romulus to the Trojans (^Eneid, book 9
, line 614). Saffron-yellow shoes formed part of the dress of the Persian kings, ...
Sap green (emerald green with much saffron yellow, and a little chestnut brown).
Animal, under side of lower wings of orange-tip butterfly; vegetable, upper disc of
leaves of the woody nightshade. 57. Pistachio green (emerald green, mixed ...
CHARLES F.PARTINGTON, 1836
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The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, ...
Sap green (emerald green with much saffron yellow, and a little chestnut brown).
Animal, under side of lower wings of orange-tip butterfly ; vegetable, nppcr disc of
leaves of the woody nightshade. 57. Pistachio green (emerald green, mixed ...
