Rose madder
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Rose madder is a red paint made from the pigment madder lake, a traditional lake pigment extracted from the common madder plant Rubia tinctorum.
Rubia tinctorum, from whose root the colour is extracted
Red coat (military uniform)
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A red coat, also referred to as a redcoat or a scarlet tunic, is a military garment formerly much used by most regiments of the British Army, so customarily that the term became a common synecdoche fo
Rose madder
…could be produced for a fraction of the cost of the natural madder dye, it quickly replaced all madder-based colorants then in use (in, for instance, British army red coats that had been a shade of madder from the late 17th century to 1870, and French military cloth, often called "Turkey Red"). In turn, alizarin itself has…
A scarlet tunic worn by a warrant officer of the Welsh Guards
Reenactors in the red-coated uniform of the 33rd Regiment of Foot as worn during the Napoleonic Wars between 1812 and 1816. Note the brighter scarlet of the officer on the right, as well as the crimson sash around his waist.
Historical reenactors depicting the New Model Army during the Battle of Winceby
Infantry uniforms of the British Army from 1750 to 1835