A natural red or carmine dye extracted from cochineal insects, also called cochineal or carmine.
From Spanish 'cochinilla' (the cochineal insect), which came from Nahuatl 'nocheztli,' the Aztec name for the insect.
Coccin was so valuable in the 1600s that it was literally worth its weight in gold to European dyers, and the Spanish kept the source of cochineal secret for decades to maintain their monopoly on this precious red dye.
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