woad – English noun declension

English noun forms of woad

Noun: woad
Singularwoad
Pluralwoads

Sample Sentences

  • Woad is one of those plants which yield the deep blue colouring matter so greatly valued in the arts — Indigo. [1840, Francis S. Wiggins, The American Farmer's Instructor, Or Practical Agriculturist, page 185:]
  • Woad was then placed on the regular shopping list of alternative crops. [1997, Joan Thirsk, Alternative Agriculture: A History, page 80:]
  • The cultivation of woad had taken hold in southern England during the early 1580s, but this dispute provides the earliest evidence of its cultivation in the fields around Tewkesbury. [1998, Daniel C. Beaver, Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690, page 32:]
  • To prevent this, it was enacted, that no wines of Gaſcony and Guienne, or woads of Tholouſe, should be imported into England, except in ships belonging to the King, or some of his ſubjects; and that all ſuch wines and woads imported in foreign bottoms ſhould be forfeited. [1814, Robert Henry, The History of Great Britain, 5th edition, volume XII, page 309:]
  • But in the middle of the sixteenth century indigo was introduced from the East Indies: and in the seventeenth century its use became extended, and supplanted that of woad. [1856, Albrecht Daniel Thaer, The Principles of Practical Agriculture, page 462:]
  • Huge quanitities of alum and woad were disembarked each year at Southampton. [1983, E. B. Fryde, Studies in Medieval Trade and Finance, page 360:]
  • For example, woad, a blue dye obtained from the plant Isatis tinctoria, was used throughout the Mediterannean and Europe and is often identified as indigo. [2007, Richard L. Myers, The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds: A Reference Guide, page 152:]

Etymology

From Middle English wode, from Old English wād (“woad”), from Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz (“woad”), from Proto-Indo-European *woydʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian wēd (“woad”), Dutch wede (“woad”), German Waid (“woad”), and with French guède, Italian guado (“woad”) (both borrowed from Frankish). See also weed. See: Middle English Nouns 'wode', Dutch Nouns 'wede', French Nouns 'guède', Italian Nouns 'guado'.

Verbs referencing "woad"

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