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Meanings of bistre in English
Synonyms
Examples for "bister"
Examples for "bister"
1
She looked white and spent; there were bister circles round her eyes.
2
Well, then, observe me; note the bister about my eyes, the swollen lips, the shaking hand.
3
Bister Burds, you bust go to Londod by the next traid.
4
I bay be wrodging Bister Ford, but do dot thig so.'
5
She sneezed, and said, "Oh, Berribad, is thad Bister Thordhiud?" She gestured for the phone.
Usage of bistre in English
1
Honeysuckles.-Insideof the petals, white shaded with sap-green, or gamboge and bistre.
2
Bay.-Lakeand flake white, shaded with carmine; bistre and vermilion shaded with black.
3
Bears.-Brownochre, red ochre, and black, mixed; shaded with bistre and ivory black.
4
Reddish-brown, marone, bistre with a golden light in it, suited her to perfection.
5
Her eyes were hideous to him in their great rings of paint and bistre.
6
Anemones.- Athinwash of gamboge shaded with bistre; or carmine and sap-green blended together.
7
Their smooth bistre skins gleamed beneath veils shot with silver.
8
Horses, black.-Blacklightly laid on, shaded with Keating's black and bistre, heightened with masticot.
9
All kinds of bistre attract moisture from the atmosphere.
10
Gray Furs-black and white mixed and shaded with bistre.
11
Horses, grey.-Blackand white mixed, shaded with black, white, and bistre; heightened with pure water.
12
Honey-white face, thin dusk and bistre of eyelids and hollow temples and the roots of the hair.
13
Washed in bistre, or India ink.
14
The ground-colour is grey, with a tinge of green, and it is thickly covered with small spots of bistre.
15
Rosalind's beautiful bistre-brown eyes smiled.
16
It is executed in pen, shaded with bistre, and belongs to what I have ventured to describe as office work.
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