Indian red

plural Indian reds · alternative Indian-red · alternative India red

1. countableuncountableAny of a variety of red or purple pigments containing ferric oxide, found in natural earth or made by chemical methods like calcinating green copperas.

   Bradly paid no attention to either intrusion on his meditations, which at that moment were deeply concerned with adding Payne's grey to a combination of cobalt and Indian red for keying down his palette in the treatment of light reflected on water.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter IX, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 98

   1. countableuncountableSpecifically, iron saffron.
2. countableuncountableThe colour of Indian red pigment: a variety of dark, purplish reds.

alternative Indian-red · alternative India red

1. Having the colour of Indian red pigment.