The Kiplings and India: A Collection of Writings from British India, 1870-1900

woad

OED: a yellow-flowered European plant of the cabbage family. It was formerly widely grown in Britain as a source of blue dye, which was extracted from the leaves after they had been dried, powdered, and fermented. Also, the dyestuff obtained from woad.

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