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单词 soot-grimed
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soot-grimed
c. With participial adjectives, as soot-bespeckled, soot-blackened, soot-bleakened, soot-bleared, soot-clogged, soot-coated, soot-grimed, soot-roughened, soot-suffused, etc.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. ii. 22 In that soot-bleared figure, most earnest of created things.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xvi. 139 A soot-bespeckled prospect of tiles and chimney-pots.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xi. 103 Here and there some huge tree had burnt as it stood, and rose like a soot-grimed tower.
1894 ‘M. Twain’ in Cent. Mag. 48 17/1 It rained all day..apparently trying its best to wash that soot-blackened town [sc. St. Louis] white.
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 132 The sootcoated packet of pictures which he had hidden in the flue of the fireplace.
1921 W. de la Mare Veil & Other Poems 68 Slow wreathed the grease adown from soot-clogged wick.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August vi. 111 Memory..knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than its own.
1947 W. de la Mare Coll. Stories for Children 122 Chapped, soot-roughened hands.
1956 D. Gascoyne Night Thoughts 23 The soot-suffused sky-canopy.
1977 H. Fast Immigrants i. 29 The still half-naked citizens, soot-blackened and homeless, greeted the ruin as they had always greeted their city.
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