grotto

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To dye a buff color, boil equal parts of arnotto and common potash, in soft clear water.

From The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous

The manner of using arnotto is to tie up, in a linen rag, the quantity deemed sufficient, and put into half a pint of warm water over night.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel

Mr. Rugg says that it is apt to contain chalk, the brains of sheep, oxen, and cows, flour, starch, treacle, whiting, sugar of lead, arnotto, size, etc.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

They had cast away their clothes, and painted themselves, like the Indians, with arnotto and indigo.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles

They painted their faces and bodies with arnotto so extravagantly, that their natural complexion, which was really that of a Spanish olive, was not easily to be distinguished under the surface of crimson.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Kerr, Robert