The British tend to think of woad as a war paint—a symbol of the fierceness of Ancient Britons before the Romans conquered the country nearly two thousand years ago.
Finlay, Victoria. Color (p. 340).
some historians have suggested that Caractacus may not have needed to paint himself from a fermenting woad vat because he was already permanently painted.
(p. 343).
(black on pale skin tends to go blue),
(p. 344)
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