Turkey red Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a bright orange-red color produced in cotton cloth with alizarine dye
    alizarine red.

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Definitions
  1. . (a) A brilliant red imparted by madder to cottons, calicoes, etc., the fiber of which has been prepared previously with oil or other fatty matter. (b) Cloth dyed with this red.

Webster 1913