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sooted
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Word definitions for sooted in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soot \Soot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sooted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sooting .] To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land. --Mortimer.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. stain or marked with soot
Usage examples of sooted.
Likewise smokes of his frequent combustions had sooted the rafters far beyond reason.
She saw garlands of flowers under the sooted eaves of old station buildings, and bunting of red-white-and-blue on the time-eaten walls.
She, too, had walked through those streets, trying not to lift her head, not to see the ledges of sooted rock and twisted steel, which had been the Wyatt oil fields.
Then she remembered what she wore, and thought that it did look preposterous—and then, at the sudden stab of some violent impulse that felt like defiance and like loyalty to the full, real meaning of the moment, she threw her cape back and stood in the raw glare of light, under the sooted columns, like a figure at a formal reception, sternly erect, flaunting the luxury of naked arms, of glowing black satin, of a diamond flashing like a military cross.
It cracked the string of windows in half and sent sparks shooting up against the sooted bricks.
He looked into the sooted teapot, seemed to decide there was sufficient water, and swung it over the fire on its dragon-shaped hook, the tower room’s one elegance.