dye
- 01 C2 Proficiency
a particular shade or colour of something.
a particular hue, tint, or colouration. This sense is often found in older literature or formal descriptions of nature.
Simple“The flowers were of a bright and beautiful dye.”
In context“The sunset painted the clouds with a crimson dye that seemed to glow against the darkening horizon.”
“It’s different for women, who dye their hair, as chances are they will also wear makeup.” Madonna.”
“A plastic bag she had been using to dye her hair when they had left for the beach was still on her head.”
From Middle English deye, from Old English dēah, dēag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-West Germanic daugu (“colour, shade”), from daugan (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”). Cognates Cognate with Old High German tougan (“dark, secretive”), tougal (“dark, hidden, covert”), Old English dēagol, dīegle (“dark, hidden, secret”), Old English dohs, dox (“dusky, dark”). See dusk.
Fom Middle English deien, from Old English dēagian, from the noun.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.