mordant

That mordant humor, however enjoyable, tiptoes around the unanswerable question of how, or even whether, we can tell the difference between cosplay and the real thing.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

Several years ago, on a cross-Atlantic literary festival where Shriver was an invited author, I observed a packed audience whoop and cheer Shriver’s mordant observations about everything wrong with the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

Via a wild final act, the nihilistic streak seen in many of Mr. Lanthimos’s previous movies emerges again, this time in an especially mordant way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Stamina is what’s required of those born into an earthly reality, for which, to quote mordant Beckett, there is no cure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025

He passed it on to Alvarez, who put his signature to it and returned it to Sagane in 1949 as a mordant keepsake.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Options already exist for fixing dyes without lead, including natural mordants derived from plants rich in tannins, such as oak bark, pomegranate peel and rosemary, as well as alum, which is considered environmentally safe.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2026

“And the mordants too. You must learn those. Sometimes sumac. Tree galls are good. Some lichens. “Best is — here, come; let me show you.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

His fragmentary information, though often inaccurate, is most valuable to those who are seeking once more to find lasting colours, and despair of discovering mordants that will fix the aniline tints.

From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford

Its general effect is to give brighter, clearer and faster colours than the other mordants.

From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Ethel M. Mairet

Alizarin, Anthrapurpurin and Flavopurpurin give somewhat similar shades with the different mordants, namely, brown with chromium, red with aluminium, orange with tin, and purple with iron.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

The blue is largely used for cotton dyeing, producing on this fibre when properly mordanted an indigo shade.

From Coal and What We Get from It by Raphael Meldola

We then dip the mordanted piece of cotton into the colour bath, containing, for instance, Magenta, and it is dyed a fine red, composed of a tannate of antimony and Magenta.

From The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association by Albert Shonk

They may be combined with logwood, as they will dye with equal facility on mordanted and unmordanted wool.

From The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics by Franklin Beech

To mordanted calico the shades imparted were dull and heavy, but very solid.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter

The mordanted cloth is then entered into the dye bath and boiled for an hour or longer, until the desired shade is obtained or the dye bath exhausted.

From Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson

The brightest yellows are got from it by mordanting with tin.

From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Ethel M. Mairet

This hawking machine will be found useful in dyeing indigo on wool, in mordanting and dyeing wool with the Alizarine series of dyes.

From The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics by Franklin Beech

The wool is first dyed in the blue vat; then washed and dried; then after mordanting, dyed in the yellow bath.

From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Ethel M. Mairet

Before mordanting with alum, the cotton is often prepared with tannic acid.

From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Ethel M. Mairet

In place of giving a second oiling after the dyeing, it is, perhaps, better to give it after the mordanting and before dyeing.

From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Franklin Beech