Read full poem →One of the company exclaimed, with the full assent of the rest, that
if the original were madder than this, it must be incurably mad. I then
translated the ode from the Greek, and as nearly as possible, word
Dictionary Entry
A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
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Common Phrases
. madderroot madderlake madderred madderplant maddermadder rosemadder evenmadder getting
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Poetry examples for “madder”
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