caput mortuum
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkæpət ˈmɔː(ɹ)tjʊəm/
caput mortuum (uncountable)
- Worthless residue, useless substance.
- Cardinal purple, a variety of haematite iron oxide pigment.
- 2018, Kate Atkinson, Transcription, p. 227:
- "Were they working their way through the colours and now had reached the more abstruse layers of the spectrum? What would be next — caput mortuum, heliotrope? The colours of the day."
- 2018, Kate Atkinson, Transcription, p. 227:
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