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Tainture

Tainture \Tain"ture\, n. [F. teinture. See Taint to stain, and cf. Tincture.] Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. [R.]
--Shak.

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tainture

n. (context obsolete English) dirtiness; uncleanliness

Usage examples of "tainture".

Those riders seemed journeyed from a legendary world and they left behind a strange tainture like an afterimage on the eye and the air they disturbed was altered and electric.