woad in a sentence
Examples
- Napoleon was forced to dye uniforms with woad, which had an inferior blue colour.
- Weimar acquired woad trade privileges in 1438.
- Merlin suggests an alliance between the Woads and the Sarmatian knights against the invading Saxons.
- He was an expert on natural dyes and cultivated plants such as madder and woad.
- Woad was still grown in 1827, when it was used locally for dyeing wool.
- Its other common names include dyer's whin, waxen woad and waxen wood.
- Dyes included woad for blue and less frequently madder and lichens for reds and purples.
- A third theory, according to curator at the woad, which is a common plant.
- In Erfurt, the woad-traders gave the funds to found the University of Erfurt.
- Small amounts of woad are now grown in the UK and France to supply craft dyers.