“In this technique, color fixatives called mordants were hand painted on the surface prior to dyeing with chay, which was derived from the root of an East Indian herb.”
“They went into Society, in a chay and four grays with silk jackets.”
“A strange chay and hosses was outside town, this morning, on the Norwich road, a'most afore the day broke,' Ham went on.”
chay
(archaic, colloquial) A chaise (horse-drawn carriage).
“In this technique, color fixatives called mordants were hand painted on the surface prior to dyeing with chay, which was derived from the root of an East Indian herb.”
“They went into Society, in a chay and four grays with silk jackets.”
“A strange chay and hosses was outside town, this morning, on the Norwich road, a'most afore the day broke,' Ham went on.”
