mordant

The intent seems to be to add a bold, tangy element to the rom-com, or at least to suggest a mordant commentary on our American condition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

Mr. Hazzard, a journalist, television writer and former paramedic, has written two other books about the proud subculture—the stoic commitment, the mordant humor—of front-line medics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Instead, war broke out across Europe, and Asquith made his mordant headache joke on the way to the historical dumpster.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2024

Yes, there's been some mordant chuckling in the media over his bizarre comments about "the late great Hannibal Lecter" and his meandering tales about electric boats and shark attacks.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2024

Tyrion took a mordant pleasure in inventing the details of the colorful life of Hugor Hill, also known as Yollo, a bastard out of Lannisport.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

It dyes somewhat like Old Fustic, but gives with aluminium and tin mordants brighter yellows, for which colours it is chiefly used.

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

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

In combination with ordinary mordants, tannic acid aids the attraction of the colouring matter to the fibre and adds brilliancy to the colours.

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

It forms brown crystals which are readily soluble in hot water, and it dyes mordanted cotton a dark brown.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

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 colour, as a rule, is not so fast and good as with a separate bath, though with some dyes a brighter colour is obtained. 4th.—The wool is mordanted, then dyed, then mordanted again.

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

Logwood, also, if mordanted with alum, gives a mauve colour; if mordanted with chrome, it gives a blue.

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

Without a mordant the colour is quite fast, but if the wool is mordanted with alum a brighter and richer colour is got.

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

The method of mordanting varies with the fibre and the metallic salt employed.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

Greys may be obtained with 1 to 5 per cent of logwood after mordanting in a weak solution of iron.

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

In addition to the preparatory washing and boiling, mordanting and dyeing, there are subsequent washings to free the goods from loose coloring matter, and other special treatments are frequently accorded them.

From The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States by Guaranty Trust Company of New York

It is then well washed, and is ready for mordanting.

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

Or a mordanting salt may be used, containing some volatile acid that on being subjected to a subsequent steaming is decomposed.

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