Crossword-Solution: DYESTUFF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dyestuff | n. | A material used for dyeing. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “DYESTUFF”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Coal tar, for example. | 1 answer |
| Coloring base | 1 answer |
| Indigo or henna, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Means of staining poor-quality trousers, rather tight in front | 1 answer |
| Textile factory need. | 1 answer |
| Indigo or henna | 2 answers |
| Anil or woad | 3 answers |
| colouring substance | 3 answers |
| woad | 5 answers |
| Coloring matter | 5 answers |
| Colorant | 7 answers |
| Red pigment | 19 answers |
| Whitewash | 40 answers |
| Dye | 45 answers |
| Grain ___ | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DYESTUFF (5)
The dyestuff industry had been developed to such a point in Germany that Germany supplied the whole world.
The commercial submarines, _Deutschland_ and _Bremen_, were to a great extent built with money furnished by the dyestuff manufacturers, who hoped that by sending dyestuffs in this way to America they could prevent the development of the industry there.
The recent closer combination of dyestuff industries of Germany, with the express purpose of meeting and destroying American competition after the war, is interesting as showing German methods.
Bleaching with chlorine is permanent, the dyestuff being destroyed by the chlorine; but bleaching with sulphurous acid is temporary, because the milder bleach does not actually destroy the dyestuff, but merely modifies it, and in time the natural yellow color of straw, cotton, and linen reappears.
This was brought forcibly to my attention during the publication of these chapters in "The Independent" by various letters, raising such objections as the following: When you say in your article on "What Comes from Coal Tar" that "Art can go ahead of nature in the dyestuff business" you have doubtless for the moment allowed your enthusiasm to sweep you away from the moorings of reason.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1963–2014).