Meaning & use
Reddleman
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historically, a person who dealt in or sold reddle, a red ochre pigment once used to mark sheep
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In Thomas Hardy's novel, the mysterious reddleman rides across the heath stained red from head to foot.
Reddlemen were once a familiar sight at rural English markets, their skin and clothes permanently dyed crimson.
A note on using this word
The word owes its modern familiarity almost entirely to Thomas Hardy's 1878 novel "The Return of the Native," whose central character, Diggory Venn, is a reddleman.
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