Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the color of bister; swarthy; browned.
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- adjective colored with or as if with bister
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Examples
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It had been bistered over by the dealer with a view to hiding a scratch, and there was also the dirt of age upon it.
Balzac 2003
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Framed in a tangled explosion of graying brown hair, his face was chalky with exhaustion, the wide gray eyes in their bistered hollows dilated with drugs.
The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988
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It had been bistered over by the dealer with a view to hiding a scratch, and there was also the dirt of age upon it.
Balzac Frederick Lawton
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It had been bistered over by the dealer with a view to hiding a scratch, and there was also the dirt of age upon it.
Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910
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My eyes are very liquid, but with dark circles, and bistered; and they are subject to slight temporary inflammation.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
jinglebelljosie commented on the word bistered
reddish brown
March 17, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word bistered
Better bistered than blistered.
February 2, 2013