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weather-stained

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Stained or discolored by the weather. See weathering, 2.

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Examples

  • Apple and Google may be intensifying privacy concerns by tracking where and when people use their mobile phones—but the true future of consumer surveillance is taking shape inside the cellphones at a weather-stained apartment complex in Cambridge, Mass.

    The Really Smart Phone Robert Lee Hotz 2011

  • But as wrenching as the scene appears, if you wade through the street people, past this partially opened door, or under that chain, you will find another Calcutta: a maze of beautiful and derelict 18th - and 19th-century mansions, built by former rajas and merchants, with blackened, weather-stained walls; intricate brickwork in Muslim, Hindu, and neoclassical styles; and colonnaded courtyards strangled by vines and other greenery.

    Oh! Kolkata! 2008

  • Just beyond were two ancient stone pillars, weather-stained and lichen-blotched bearing upon their summits a shapeless something which had once been the rampant lion of Capus of Birlstone.

    Chennai 2010

  • But as wrenching as the scene appears, if you wade through the street people, past this partially opened door, or under that chain, you will find another Calcutta: a maze of beautiful and derelict 18th - and 19th-century mansions, built by former rajas and merchants, with blackened, weather-stained walls; intricate brickwork in Muslim, Hindu, and neoclassical styles; and colonnaded courtyards strangled by vines and other greenery.

    Oh! Kolkata! 2008

  • But as wrenching as the scene appears, if you wade through the street people, past this partially opened door, or under that chain, you will find another Calcutta: a maze of beautiful and derelict 18th - and 19th-century mansions, built by former rajas and merchants, with blackened, weather-stained walls; intricate brickwork in Muslim, Hindu, and neoclassical styles; and colonnaded courtyards strangled by vines and other greenery.

    Oh! Kolkata! 2008

  • The CMC, which was new my Sophomore year, is looking weather-stained now.

    1.28.2009 « Photo-a-Day 2009

  • The headstone was alabaster, weather-stained and partially concealed in shadow, capped with a thin layer of icy snow.

    Richard Paul Evans Ebook Christmas Set Richard Paul Evans 2009

  • The CMC, which was new my Sophomore year, is looking weather-stained now.

    2009 January « Photo-a-Day 2009

  • Unlike Stuart, Jackson wore an “old weather-stained coat,” whose buttons had been long removed by women admirers of the Confederate hero.

    Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

  • Unlike Stuart, Jackson wore an “old weather-stained coat,” whose buttons had been long removed by women admirers of the Confederate hero.

    Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

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