"mandarining" meaning in English

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          "text": "1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures\nBy this method, which is called mandarining, an orange colour is given to silk and wool, not from the solution of a colouring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fibre by the action of dilute nitric acid."
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        "(historical or archaic) The use of a nitric acid solution to give an orange colour to textiles, such as silk or wool."
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