mandarining

== English == === Etymology === From mandarin +‎ -ing. === Noun === mandarining (uncountable) (historical or archaic) The use of a nitric acid solution to give an orange colour to textiles, such as silk or wool. 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures By this method, which is called mandarining, an orange colour is given to silk and wool, not from the solution of a colouring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fibre by the action of dilute nitric acid. === References === “mandarining”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.