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What defines him instead are various quips, mordant jokes and accounts of bizarre behavior, many no doubt apocryphal, recorded by his admirers and detractors in the centuries after his death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

Stamina is what’s required of those born into an earthly reality, for which, to quote mordant Beckett, there is no cure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025

His worst critics perceived this outlook as complacency, something insufficiently mordant for any writer of the long, wicked 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Instead, war broke out across Europe, and Asquith made his mordant headache joke on the way to the historical dumpster.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2024

The dwarf had been whetting the edge of his axe and making some mordant jest when Bronn spotted the banner the riders carried before them, the moon-and-falcon of House Arryn, sky-blue and white.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Options already exist for fixing dyes without lead, including natural mordants derived from plants rich in tannins, such as oak bark, pomegranate peel and rosemary, as well as alum, which is considered environmentally safe.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2026

“And the mordants too. You must learn those. Sometimes sumac. Tree galls are good. Some lichens. “Best is — here, come; let me show you.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

It must not be forgotten that the chemical properties of the fibre substances are modified more or less by association in combination with colouring matters and mordants.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various

Saddening, sad′n-ing, n. a method of applying mordants in dyeing and printing cloths, so as to give duller shades to the colours employed.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Fustic, weld, and most of the yellow dyes, give a greeny yellow with alum, but an old gold colour with chrome; and fawns of various shades with other mordants.

From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Mairet, Ethel M.

With silk and wool it gives a brighter colour if mordanted with alum or tin.

From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Mairet, Ethel M.

The colour, as a rule, is not so fast and good as with a separate bath, though with some dyes a brighter colour is obtained. 4th.—The wool is mordanted, then dyed, then mordanted again.

From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Mairet, Ethel M.

The dyeing operation consists in working the mordanted material in a solution of the necessary colouring matter, the dyebath being gradually raised to the boiling point.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

It crystallizes from alcohol in yellowish red needles, and dyes silk, wool, and mordanted cotton a fine pink colour.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

Without a mordant the colour is quite fast, but if the wool is mordanted with alum a brighter and richer colour is got.

From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Mairet, Ethel M.

Also by adding 3 to 4 per cent Alum to the mordanting bath a still greener shade can be obtained.

From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Mairet, Ethel M.

The cotton fibre has some affinity for the tannic acid used in preparing it and absorbs it from the mordanting bath.

From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Beech, Franklin

Another method of mordanting cotton is to fix the metallic salt on the fibre as a tannate instead of an oleate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

The method of mordanting varies with the fibre and the metallic salt employed.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

Greys may be obtained with 1 to 5 per cent of logwood after mordanting in a weak solution of iron.

From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Mairet, Ethel M.