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Someone who commits to a color so hard the fabric has no say in the matter.
means A person whose trade is coloring cloth or yarn by treating it with dyes.
from From Old English 'deagian' (to dye), rooted in the ancient dye-vat trades — before synthetic chemistry, dyers worked with woad, madder, and insect-based reds, often guild-bound and famously stained-handed from the job itself.
- origin
- old english for one who dyes
- name link
- common english surname from the trade
- history
- medieval dyers reeked, often banished to town edges
- famous shade
- tyrian purple once needed thousands of snails