dyeing
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dyeing
- present participle and gerund of dye
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dyeing (plural dyeings)
- The act by which something is dyed.
- 1930, United States. National Bureau of Standards, Bureau of Standards journal of research, volume 3, page 50:
- Ninety per cent of the dyeings on silk, 72 per cent of the dyeings on rayon, 70 per cent of the dyeings on cotton showed no color change.
- 2013, Lyn Parker, Pam Nilan, Adolescents in Contemporary Indonesia, page 52:
- In the traditional workshops of Surakarta, where the best quality batik tulis textiles are still created, low-paid women and girls use melted wax to meticulously hand-draw patterns before subsequent dyeings and rewaxings, […]