dye
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1 a hue or colour (n.) C2 Proficiency Literarya 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.
ExampleThe flowers were of a bright and beautiful dye.
ExampleThe sunset painted the clouds with a crimson dye that seemed to glow against the darkening horizon.
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.