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bluemilion
[< blue + vermilion]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
laundry bluing, used by some Indians as a pigment.
Quotations
1941
Bluemilion. Vermilion powder is expensive. It is mixed with fish oil and used by the Indians for decorating deerskin coats, snowshoes, choice skins, etc. Ordinary laundry blue in cubes is used in conjunction with the former, but when displayed for sale, the name was automatically changed.