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- adjective Resembling
soot or some aspect of it.
Etymologies
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Examples
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ColinC writes: After recent snowfall, I and many others have noticed a black, sootlike substance settling on the snow, cars, and dogs around town.
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ColinC writes: After recent snowfall, I and many others have noticed a black, sootlike substance settling on the snow, cars, and dogs around town.
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Meanwhile from the steppe slow, ponderous grey oxen with sharp horns are drawing an endless succession of wagon-loads of threshed grain through rich, black, sootlike dust.
Through Russia 2003
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He wiped his face on his sleeve, thereby smudging his cheeks with the sootlike powder.
Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988
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Meanwhile from the steppe slow, ponderous grey oxen with sharp horns are drawing an endless succession of wagon-loads of threshed grain through rich, black, sootlike dust.
Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902
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