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Indian red

Indian red noun: any of a variety of red or purple pigments containing ferric oxide, found in natural earth or made by chemical methods like calcinating green copperas.

Noun

Indian red (countable and uncountable, plural Indian reds)

  1. Any of a variety of red or purple pigments containing ferric oxide, found in natural earth or made by chemical methods like calcinating green copperas.
    • Bradly paid no attention to either intrusion on his meditations, which at that moment were deeply concerned with adding Payne's grey to a combination of cobalt and Indian red for keying down his palette in the treatment of light reflected on water.1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter IX, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 98
    1. Specifically, iron saffron.
  2. The colour of Indian red pigment: a variety of dark, purplish reds.

Adjective

Indian red

  1. Having the colour of Indian red pigment.

Indian red meaning in Tamil

Indian red in Tamil

இந்தியச் சிவப்பு

Forms of Indian red

pluralIndian reds
alternative formIndian-red
alternative formIndia red

Origin of Indian red

1672 pigment, c. 1810–27 colour and adjective. Indian + red, the pigment originally being an earth obtained from the East Indies.

Words formed from Indian red

  • native Indian red

Questions about Indian red

What does Indian red mean?
Indian red means any of a variety of red or purple pigments containing ferric oxide, found in natural earth or made by chemical methods like calcinating green copperas.
What is Indian red in Tamil?
Indian red in Tamil is இந்தியச் சிவப்பு. See Indian red meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Indian red?
Indian red can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of Indian red?
The plural of Indian red is Indian reds.

Words near Indian red in the dictionary

  1. Indian pond heron
  2. Indian potato
  3. Indian potatoes
  4. Indian pudding
  5. Indian puddings
  6. Indian red
  7. Indian reds
  8. Indian relay
  9. Indian relish
  10. Indian relishes
  11. Indian Reserve No. 23

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Indian red (page history and authors); indian red (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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