ruddle

They daub their bodies with a red earth, like the ruddle used in England for marking sheep.

Ducange, with the authorities quoted above, make its colour green; but the sinoper, or ruddle of commerce, is of a dark red or purplish hue.

Every one of these ruddled workers, slouching with his dog at his heels to see something of the fight, was a true unit of his race.

The stone, of a red colour, was probably of a material impregnated with the red called “ruddle,” a colour never to be washed out.

The distorted gibbous disk lifted itself above the edge—red as ruddle and enlarged by the refraction: a giant coppery moon, weird and magical.