dutch pink

noun

often capitalized D

1

: a yellow lake prepared usually from Persian berries or from quercitron and used chiefly as an artist's pigment

2

: a light yellow that is greener and slightly darker than jasmine and greener and stronger than average maize or popcorn

called also English pink, Italian pink, madder yellow, stil-de-grain yellow, yellow madder

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