pincoffin

English

Etymology

From Pincoff (“name of the English manufacturer”), +‎ -in.

Noun

pincoffin (uncountable)

1. (archaic) A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding violet tints.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pincoffin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)