Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The coloring or shading of anything; state or condition as to color.
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Examples
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When I compared with rose a-bloom the tintage of her cheeks,
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The curious contrast in a region of evergreens was not wanting, the varied tintage of winter on one tree, and upon another the brightest hues of budding spring.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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I should imagine from what he says that the coloring of vegetation is in great part the merest tintage, the large admixture of white giving to it
A Strange Discovery Charles Romyn Dake
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Each year, by December -- the south-polar midsummer month -- vegetation has become colored; and its delicacy yet brilliancy of tintage is then very beautiful, and varied beyond that of perhaps any other spot in the world.
A Strange Discovery Charles Romyn Dake
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The curious contrast in a region of evergreens was not wanting, the varied tintage of winter on one tree, and upon another the brightest hues of budding spring.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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When I compared with rose a-bloom the tintage of her cheeks, *
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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