ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TURNSOLE
From Old French tournesole, from Old Italian tornasole, from tornare to turn + sole sun, from Latin sōl sun.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TURNSOLE»
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The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting
TURNSOLE—lDEN'!'lFlCATION like indigo lent its name to many minor
substitutes. Indigo and turnsole were the great medieval organic blues, and while
in general they stood for the blues from woad, Isatis, and from turnsole,
Crozophora, ...
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A General System of Gardening and Botany: Containing a ...
Planche says it contains one-fourth of its weight of starch. It is accordingly more
soluble in water than in alcohol. The tincture is not precipitated by water, and
does not affect the colour of infusion of turnsole, or solution of red sulphate of iron
.
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A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants: Comprising ...
Oppmile-leaved Turnsole. Shrub 3 to 6 feet. 5 H. 1NcA`NUM (Ruiz. et Pav. H. per.
2. p. 2. no. 4. t. 108. Т. а.) stem shrubby; leaves thick, ovate, acute, crenulated,
very much wrinkled above, and lined with retrograde asperities, but softer and ...
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The house and farm accounts of the Shuttleworths of ...
The Dutch turnsole (called likewise orseil) is a paste made with the fruit or berry
of a plant, which the botanists call Heliolropium tricoccum, or turnsol (which
grows plentifully in several parts of Holland), of perelle (a dried earth, from
Auvergne ...
Shuttleworth family, Chetham Society, John Harland, 1858
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Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the ...
a crown piece. They use it to colour their jellies; but it is much less used than the
turnsol in linen, which is made entirely of the mesteck cochineal. The Dutch
turnsole (called likewise orseil) is a paste made with the fruit or berry of a plant,
which ...
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The Philosophical Magazine: Comprehending the Various ...
Thisyellow water bad the smell of the oxymuriatic acid ; it whitened the cork ; it
reddened the tincture of turnsole ; it occasioned an effervescence with the ,
carbonate of potash, with which it afterwards yielded cubical crystals which
decrepitated ...
By John Pond, Esq. Astronomer Royal. Sui Congiamenti di Colore della Tintura
del Turnesoli,&c. Observations and Experiments on the Changes of Colour in
Tincture of Turnsole, and oilier Vegetable Tintlnres. By Professor Branchi of Pisa.
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The house and farm accounts of the Shuttleworths of ...
Pcgge thinks this word should be read jownas for jaulnas orange- tawney ; but it
is more probably a corruption of the French word pourpre, and the dye of the
turnsole is a deep and rich purple. King Richard's cooks state that their work was
...
John Harland, Chetham Society, 1857
This should not be confused in this context with the important mediaeval blue
dyesource turnsole (Chrozophoria tinctoria L.) which lent its name to blues
produced from numerous other vegetable sources (Thompson, 1956). See:
turnsole and ...
Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, 2008
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Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments
This should not be confused in this context with the important mediaeval blue
dyesource turnsole (Chrozophoria tinctoria L.) which lent its name to blues
produced from numerous other vegetable sources (Thompson, 1956). See:
turnsole and ...
Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, 2007
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TURNSOLE»
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turnsole is used in the context of the following news items.
Adam Ford & Vermouth: The Revival of the Spirit that Created …
... aromatized wines based on what was in season, then Hippocras, which was wine infused with sugar, cinnamon, ginger, grains of paradise and turnsole.”. «Forbes, Jun 15»
Abstract artist Kenneth Noland dead
A man stands in front of the painting Turnsole by Kenneth Noland at an exhibition of New York's Museum of Modern Art in Berlin in 2004. Photo: Reuters. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 10»
Mystery of Madonna and Child Painting Solved
In 2003, researchers in Belgium discovered that the painting appears to be the first in which an artist used a medieval blue dye called turnsole. "Analytical ... «LiveScience.com, Feb 07»
