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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

teñido anudado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /teˈɲiðo anuˈdaðo/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Tie-dyeing/ˈtaɪˌdaɪ.ɪŋ/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Hicimos una sesión de teñido anudado en el jardín."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A resist-dyeing textile process where fabric is tightly bound, folded, or twisted and secured with strings or rubber bands before being immersed in dye, creating randomized or symmetrical patterns.

    "She spent the afternoon in the backyard engaging in tie-dyeing to create vibrant festival shirts."
  2. 2

    The colorful, patterned fabric produced by this specific dyeing technique.

    "The boutique specialized in vintage 1960s fashion and brightly colored tie-dyeing."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb phrase 'tie-dye', which combines 'tie' (from Old English tīgan, meaning to bind or fasten) and 'dye' (from Old English dēagian, meaning to color or stain). The technique gained widespread popularity in Western culture during the counterculture movement of the 1960s, though resist-dyeing methods have ancient roots in Asian and African textile traditions.

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