sooty
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
sooty (comparative sootier, superlative sootiest)
- Of, relating to, or producing soot.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 5”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Fire of sooty coal.
- Soiled with soot
- Of the color of soot.
- {{RQ:Milton Comus|passage=The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.
- (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.
- 1834, William Gilmore Simms, Guy Rivers: A tale of Georgia
- While thus reduced, his few surviving senses were at once called into acute activity by the appearance of a sooty little negro, who placed within his grasp a misshapen fold of dirty paper, […]
- 1834, William Gilmore Simms, Guy Rivers: A tale of Georgia
- French: fuligineux
- Italian: fuligginoso
- Portuguese: fuliginoso
- Spanish: fuliginoso
- Italian: caliginoso
- Spanish: tiznado, hollinoso, holliniento
sooty (sooties, present participle sootying; past and past participle sootied)
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