Examples of woad in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In France in 1598, King Henry IV favored woad producers by banning the import of indigo, and in 1609 decreed that anyone using the dye would be executed. — Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020 Plus, indigo represented a threat to European textile merchants who had heavily invested in woad, a homegrown source of blue dye. — Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020 His ruling élite dressed in the finest clothes, made by boiling woad leaves and madder roots to produce dyes of dazzling cerulean and ruby. — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020 Seeing a peasant wearing red is improbable, but the abundance of woad makes blue dyes commonplace even among peasants. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2018 The family imported herring and woad in large enough quantities to buy an existing estate and win a kind of ersatz ennoblement. — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017

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