Brown pigment made from boiling the soot of wood.
Medium brownish tone of the color bistre.
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Examples for "bistre"
Examples for "bistre"
1Honeysuckles.-Insideof the petals, white shaded with sap-green, or gamboge and bistre.
2Bay.-Lakeand flake white, shaded with carmine; bistre and vermilion shaded with black.
3Bears.-Brownochre, red ochre, and black, mixed; shaded with bistre and ivory black.
4Reddish-brown, marone, bistre with a golden light in it, suited her to perfection.
5Her eyes were hideous to him in their great rings of paint and bistre.
1She looked white and spent; there were bister circles round her eyes.
2Well, then, observe me; note the bister about my eyes, the swollen lips, the shaking hand.
3Bister Burds, you bust go to Londod by the next traid.
4I bay be wrodging Bister Ford, but do dot thig so.'
5She sneezed, and said, "Oh, Berribad, is thad Bister Thordhiud?" She gestured for the phone.
Translations for soot brown