Warence

Quick meaning: Warence is a noun meaning (obsolete) Dyer's madder, an herb (Rubia tinctorum) or a reddish dye made from the herb.

Meaning

(obsolete) Dyer's madder, an herb (Rubia tinctorum) or a reddish dye made from the herb.

Example Sentences

Rvbea maior is an herbe þat me clepuþ reed mader or warance

Rubea the moze hath greter leves tis of grete verttue, and is the herbe that warence or madder is made of, therefore it is called the dyers rubea.

The tariff of gate tolls specifies three sorts of articles for dyeing,—madder (warence); orchil or lichen, under the name of korc, […] woad (weide), together with the potash (cendre), used in scouring and dyeing.

in Gerarde’s time, there were for many of them still older English names, a list of which he “gathered out of ancient written and printed copies, and from the mouths of plain and simple country people.” Thus ache is smallage; […] tooth-wort, shepherd’s purse; warence, madder; warmot, wormwood

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