Indian red

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Definition of Indian red in English English dictionary: Having the colour of Indian red pigment; The colour of Indian red pigment: a variety of dark, purplish reds; Any of a variety of red or purple pigments containing ferric oxide, found in natural earth or made by chemical methods; An iron oxide used as a paint and cosmetic pigment; a reddish brown resembling the red soil used as body paint by American indians a red soil containing ferric oxide; often used as a pigment a red pigment composed in part from ferric oxide which is often used in paints and cosmetics
Red Indian: American Indian
Red Indian: Native Americans who were living in North America when Europeans arrived there used to be called Red Indians. This use could cause offence
Red Indian: Native American, person of American Indian heritage
Red River Indian War: (1874-75) Uprising of Indian warriors from reservation tribes (Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, and Kataka). After settlement of southwestern tribes on reservations in Oklahoma and Texas (1867), discontented braves broke out repeatedly to raid white travelers and settlers. An attack in 1874 killed 60 Texans. Federal troops under William T. Sherman converged on Indians concentrated in the Red River valley of Texas. Indian resistance forced 14 pitched battles with U.S. troops before the Indians' eventual surrender and return to the reservations

Indian red

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In·di·an Red

îndiın red

/ˈəndēən ˈred/ /ˈɪndiːən ˈrɛd/

() 1672 pigment, c. 1810–27 colour and adjective. Indian + red, the pigment originally being an earth obtained from the East Indies.

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