mordant
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
mordant (comparative more mordant, superlative most mordant)
- Having or showing a sharp or critical quality
- Serving to fix a dye to a fibre.
TranslationsEdit
biting or caustic
NounEdit
mordant (plural mordants)
- Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.
- 1964, L.F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages, p. 208.
- In dyeing two mediums are required, the colouring matter and the mordant which fixes the dye in the wool.
- 1964, L.F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages, p. 208.
- Any corrosive substance used in etching.
- A glutinous size used as a ground for gilding, to make the gold leaf adhere.
SynonymsEdit
- (substance for etching): etchant
TranslationsEdit
a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
VerbEdit
mordant (third-person singular simple present mordants, present participle mordanting, simple past and past participle mordanted)
- (transitive) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.
- Mordant these goods for dyeing.
TranslationsEdit
to subject to a mordant
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