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Someone who dyes cloth or other materials.
"The man who cannot distinguish the false from the true/
Sustains as heavy a loss and blow to his heart/
As the 'expert' who thinks he can tell the two dyes apart/
When he can't tell Sidonian blue from the similar hue/
We get from the moss of Aquinum and use for our cloth."
Horace, Epistle to Aristius Fuscus (21 B.C.)
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