Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or like cinder; slaggy.
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Examples
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These towns looked, in the cinderous wet, as though they had one and all been on fire and were just put out — a dreary and quenched panorama, many miles long.
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Today it stands almost six hundred feet high, a cinderous black cone garnished sparsely with green.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Today it stands almost six hundred feet high, a cinderous black cone garnished sparsely with green.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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When the heavy drag had been adjusted to the wheel, and the carriage slid down hill, with a cinderous smell, in a cloud of dust, the red glow departed quickly; the sun and the Marquis going down together, there was no glow left when the drag was taken off.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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There was a very scanty cinderous fire in the grate by which they sat; and there was a tent bedstead in the room, with a bed upon it and a coverlet.
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When the heavy drag had been adjusted to the wheel, and the carriage slid down hill, with a cinderous smell, in a cloud of dust, the red glow departed quickly; the sun and the Marquis going down together, there was no glow left when the drag was taken off.
A Tale of Two Cities 1859
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These towns looked, in the cinderous wet, as though they had one and all been on fire and were just put out -- a dreary and quenched panorama, many miles long.
Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices Charles Dickens 1841
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When the heavy drag had been adjusted to the wheel, and the carriage slid down hill, with a cinderous smell, in a cloud of dust, the red glow departed quickly; the sun and the Marquis going down together, there was no glow left when the drag was taken off.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1841
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There was a very scanty cinderous fire in the grate by which they sat; and there was a tent bedstead in the room with a bed upon it and a coverlet.
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841
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(to save himself from being choked with dust) he patrolled a little cinderous beat he established for the purpose, without taking his eyes from the diggers, he still stumped to the tune: He's GROWN too FOND of
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841
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