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Henna

Henna is a dye made from dried, powdered leaves of Lawsonia inermis, used to produce reddish stains used in body art. It originates in North Africa and the Middle East, and has been used since at least antiquity across the region, including in ancient Egypt, as well as in ancient Mesopotamia and broader pre-Islamic Arabian cultures, as a hair and body…

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Body art

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Black henna

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Henna

Nodes161
Edges160
Triples180
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012422
Components1

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Henna

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related to Hair/eyebrow dye · 38
Henna → Adelina Patti, Ahmose Inhapy, Ahmose-Henuttamehu, BCE, Britain, By, Contrary, Cora Pearl, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's, Dynasty, Eastern, Elizabeth Siddal, England, Europe, Evelyn De Morgan, Frederic Leighton, Frederick Sandys, French, Gaston Bussière, Henuttamehu's
related to Body art · 26
Henna → Akrotiri, Anath, Baal, BCE, Bronze Age, Eastern Mediterranean, Essential, Hindus, However, Jews, Many, Mediterranean, Middle East, Muslims, Night, Other, Sikhs, Since, The, The Night
related to Etymology · 21
Henna → ALA-LC, Amiri, Arabic, Arabic Transparent, Arabic Typesetting, Arial, Calibri, Droid Arabic Naskh, Harmattan, Lateef, LateefGR, Microsoft Sans Serif, Noto Naskh Arabic, Noto Sans Arabic, Parastoo, Sakkal Majalla, Scheherazade New, Segoe UI, SF Arabic, The
related to Further reading · 17
Henna → Alvaro, August, Badoni Semwal, Bibcode, Cartwright-Jones, Catherine, Combrinck, Deepak Kumar, Ethnobotanical, Ethnopharmacology, Journal, Lawsonia, PMID, Ruchi, Sandra, Semwal, Viljoen
related to para-phenylenediamine · 15
Henna → Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Bali, Because, Black, Do, Estimates, If, In, India, PPD, PPD-based, Temporary, The, West
has effect · 13
Henna → Drug Administration, FDA, G6PD, Infants, Middle East, North Africa, Phenylenediamine, Some, The, The United States Food, These, Though, US
related to Black henna · 13
Henna → Artists, Black, Indigo, Indigofera, It, Natural, Partly, Pictures, PPD, The, The FDA, This, West
related to history · 10
Henna → Ancient Egypt, Babylonia, Elder, It, Maghreb, Phoenician Diasporas, Pliny, Punic, Roman Empire, The
is a · 1
Henna → dye made from dried

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hair skin dye black used wedding bride paste hands also women ppd days use may mehndi stain dyes egypt well

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Hennais adye made from dried0.90text
sodium picramateinstance ofincluding what appears to be a natural-looking color stain produced by dyes0.80text
theseinstance ofThere are many adulterated henna pastes0.80text
and othersinstance ofThere are many adulterated henna pastes0.80text
for sale today that are erroneously marketed asinstance ofThere are many adulterated henna pastes0.80text
Frederic Leightoninstance ofacademic classicists0.80text
and French painters such as Gaston Bussièreinstance ofacademic classicists0.80text
the Impressionistsinstance ofacademic classicists0.80text
further popularized the association of henna-dyed hairinstance ofacademic classicists0.80text
young bohemian women.Opera singer Adelina Patti is sometimes credited with popularizing the use of henna in Europe in the late nineteenth centuryinstance ofacademic classicists0.80text
trianglesinstance ofgeometric shapes0.80text
diamonds characteristic of traditional Moroccan beading are represented in Moroccan henna designs.The fashion ofinstance ofgeometric shapes0.80text

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