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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Lampblack.

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Examples

  • Crawling up Sixth Avenue in his armored Suburban wagon -- just a driver, a bodyguard and two aides are aboard -- Rudolph W. Giuliani gazes out the smoke-black window.

    City Slickers 2008

  • Etched, eroded ridges spiral and veer, running for ten, twenty kilometres through smoke-black water.

    Having Plenty – Rereading Favourites, November 2007 « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2007

  • What lies behind the night — that smoke-black mass — we know.

    The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

  • They were stacked six-high: Volkswagen, Mercedes, Opel, Taunus, patches of rust-red and smoke-black, smashed glass and twisted axles and burst panelling.

    The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

  • "My hair!" she exclaimed breathlessly, her hand going swiftly to the heavy, smoke-black tresses.

    The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler

  • A fillet of pale green leaves bound her smoke-black hair, and the slender, girlish figure in its sea-green gown, touched here and there with gold embroidery, reminded one of spring, and the young green and gold of daffodils.

    The Splendid Folly Margaret Pedler

  • She wore a filmy gown of a dull cream colour, with daring great poppies in pink and black and gold embroidered over it; her lacy black hat, shadowing her clear forehead and smoke-black hair, was covered with the soft pink flowers.

    Harriet and the Piper Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • He seemed unwearied, though beneath the smoke-black his eyes were hollow.

    The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

  • It was stifling and narrow in our box of stone under the low, heavy ceiling, covered with smoke-black and spider-webs.

    Twenty-six and One and Other Stories Maksim Gorky 1902

  • All had been anxious to make a smudge with smoke-black upon my note-book.

    Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

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