Indian Red Definition

noun

A yellowish-red ocher, originally from an island in the Persian Gulf, used in early times as a pigment.

Webster's New World

An impure native iron oxide used by North American Indians as a reddish war paint, and by early American painters.

Webster's New World

The colour of Indian red pigment: a variety of dark, purplish reds.

Wiktionary

adjective

Having the colour of Indian red pigment.

Wiktionary

Origin of Indian Red

1672 pigment, c. 1810–27 colour and adjective. Indian + red, the pigment originally being an earth obtained from the East Indies.

From Wiktionary
From the fact that earths containing the pigment are found in the East Indies

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition