DCBa reddish-brown substance used to change the colour of hair or skin 散沫花染料〔红褐色,用作头发、皮肤的染色剂〕
—henna verb [transitiveT]
Examples from the Corpus
henna• Her hair was heavily oiled, perfumed and washed again and again in a hennamixture.• Round in childhood, she became stout in middleage and the auburn of her hair was maintained by henna.• He liked to sniff the parcel of graduatedhenna for its strong herby smell.• How much henna and skin dye does it take to achievetrue greatness?• Those were the days before people dyed their hair bright colours, the days of henna.• Adam had put henna on his hair and that and the sun had turned it reddish-gold.• The soles of her feet were dyed with henna, making a brownsandal.• Their nails were painted with henna and the palms of their hands striped with it.