Replying to jodhpurs:
Riding breeches named for the city in Northern India
Cheddar
Can we repeat? Because cheddar was already played in post #45.
Oops something went wrong because when I searched for cheddar it didn’t come up!
Instead of cheddar: muslin
A cotton fabric named for Mosul, Iraq where it was originally manufactured.
Yttrium
(The most interesting thing about this one is I could have picked any of FOUR different elements and gotten the same answer.)
Yttrium: from a quarry where the rock sample that the element was extracted from. The quarry was in the village of Ytterby, near Stockholm Sweden.
Mocha
From the coffee trade port of Al Mokka in Yemen.
Magenta
Italian city where they fought a battle in the 19th century. Color name apparently from that of the uniforms of the Zouave troops.
Dungeness
The crab’s name comes from the Dungeness Spit, a long sand spit in Washington – itself presumably named for Dungeness, England.
Armageddon
From Tel Megiddo, an Bronze Age Canaanite city-state, later a royal city in the Israelite kingdom, supposed in Christian eschatology to be the site of an apocalyptic battle between good and evil.
Mascara.
After much research, I found a reference (it’s from Wikipedia, so take that for whatever it’s worth) to the Algerian town of Mascara, since the French discovered antimony powder during their conquest of Algeria during the mid-19th century – and Roman historical records indicate the use of antimony as eye makeup (it was called stibium, however).
Since the use of dark eye makeup predates that significantly, I’m more inclined to believe the word came from the Arabic maskharah (meaning buffoon), or the Italian maschera or Spanish máscara – words that mean mask, and the fact that there happens to be a city in Algeria named Mascara is merely a coincidence.
Moving along … Colby cheese
-“BB”-