Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Smeared or daubed with ink. Charlotte Brontë, Villette, xxxv.
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Examples
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In the whole world there was no answer to them, except where one dark little man stood, sat, walked, lectured, under the head-piece of a bandit bonnet-grec, and within the girth of a sorry paletôt, much be-inked, and no little adust.
Villette 2003
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In the whole world there was no answer to them, except where one dark little man stood, sat, walked, lectured, under the head-piece of a bandit bonnet-grec, and within the girth of a sorry paletôt, much be-inked, and no little adust.
Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835
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