Examples
“To make matters worse, there's an alternate form cinereal defined as 'cinereous.”
“Burnett to restrain the roving eyes of the congregation and make gallants better attend to their devotions; all these, in addition to the memorial slabs and tablets, and weeping angels over cinereal urns, tend to give the church that air of ugliness and comfort which the modern churchman detests.”
“His cinereal ashes may lie beneath the cypresses, near the dust of the “Adonais” of his muse, under Roman sod, and where he said:”
“His cinereal ashes may lie beneath the cypresses, near the dust of the”
“Why, the ashes of the dead were collected and preserved in these cinereal urns; and what are ashes but earthy salts?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cinereal’.
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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Exotic Color Names
Single-word names of colors.
bisque, chartreuse, cornsilk, gainsboro, roseate, verdigris, carmine, dahlia, vermilion, puce, cinereal, muslin and 41 more...
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unusual color-related words
Not your typical red, blue, steel grey or even burnt umber.
glaucous, fuscous, clinquant, cerulean, falu red, puce, amaranth, cerise, vermilion, heliotrope, mountbatten pink, sangria and 54 more...
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John Banville And His Quest To Frustr...
'Oh yeah. My books must be an absolute nightmare to translate.' - Banville
'Brandishing Roget's apotropaic caduceus, Banville's prose is flocculent and positively crepitant with memory's...flocculent, cinereal, crepitant, velutinous, paean, inutile, ovine, cracaleured, ichor
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Colour words.
So I can frustrate my readers!
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