Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Stained brown, as if scorched with urine: said of clothes.
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Examples
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He had on his torn cassock and his greatcoat; but, as the remainder of his cassock hung down below his greatcoat, so did a small stripe of white, or rather whitish, linen appear below that; to which we may add the several colours which appeared on his face, where a long piss-burnt beard served to retain the liquor of the stone-pot, and that of a blacker hue which distilled from the mop.
Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 Henry Fielding 1730
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