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Definition of Double dye
1. Verb. Dye twice.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Dye
Literary usage of Double dye
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1877)
"Mr. Crook had tried the double dye, but not sufficiently extensively to speak
... Mr. Needham, though he thought a double dye, in one fluid, most valuable, ..."
2. The Bible explainer; or A dictionary of the names, countries [&c.] as by William Nicholson (1870)
"Though your sins have been as scarlet and crimson, a deep dye, a double dye,
first in the wool of original corruption, and afterwards in the many threads of ..."
3. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1842)
"Doblez, trato doble, simulación, dolo, y fraude. DOUBLE-DEALER, ». Hombre doble,
traidor y falso que dice una cosa y piensa otra. To DOUBLE-DYE, vti. ..."
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