Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to, resembling, or characteristic of pewter: as, a pewtery taste.
- noun Pewter collectively.
- noun A pewter closet; a place for keeping pewter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Belonging to, or resembling, pewter.
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- adjective Of or resembling
pewter .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The stout German, for her part, looked at both her visitors with pewtery, vacant-looking eyes, smiling affably and evidently not understanding Russian.
The Double 2003
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The two aunts go on sitting in the same position immovably, with their arms folded across their bosoms and doze, staring with their pewtery little eyes at the lamp.
The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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All night Navagin dreamed of a gaunt old clerk in a shabby uniform, with a face as yellow as a lemon, hair that stood up like a brush, and pewtery eyes; the clerk said something in a sepulchral voice and shook a bony finger at him.
The Schoolmaster Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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As she said good-bye she slipped three hundred roubles into his hand; he seemed taken aback, and looked at her for a minute in silence with his pewtery eyes, but then seemed to understand and said:
The Party Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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Beyond them, in the prolonged northern twilight, the waters of the bay took on a peculiar pewtery brightness, but with the usual mourning-edged border of Scotch seacoast scenery.
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869
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'Aha! he's come!' growled the major, casting a sidelong glance out of his pewtery eyes upon Pyetushkov, and not stirring from his place.
A Desperate Character and Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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On one of his Potomac farms, a portion of the land is exceedingly heavy -- pewtery land, as it is termed from its tendency when wet to run together, presenting a glistening appearance somewhat resembling that metal.
Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers Solon Robinson 1841
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‘Aha! he’s come!’ growled the major, casting a sidelong glance out of his pewtery eyes upon Pyetushkov, and not stirring from his place.
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Both coins are made of a greasy pewtery sort of tin; and I thought the biggest was the most valuable: but the fellow showed a sense of their value, and a disposition seemingly to cut any man’s throat who did not understand it.
mollusque commented on the word pewtery
The moon was lusciously ripe and full, and it hovered right above me, spilling a pewtery light all around.
--Elizabeth Gilbert, 2006, Eat, Pray, Love, p. 202
August 13, 2009
sionnach commented on the word pewtery
By the light ....
Of the pewtery moon ....
August 13, 2009
bilby commented on the word pewtery
The fish ran away with the loon.
August 13, 2009