Meaning Of The Word Vat dye

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What's The Definition Of Vat dye?

vat dye in American English
a colorfast dye made soluble for application to cloth, then oxidized and thus rendered insoluble in the cloth
any of the class of insoluble dyes impregnated into textile fibers by reduction into soluble leuco bases that regenerate the insoluble dye on oxidation

vat dye in British English
noun: a dye, such as indigo, that is applied by first reducing it to its leuco base, which is soluble in alkali, and then regenerating the insoluble dye by oxidation in the fibres of the material

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