Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lampblack.
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"My hair!" she exclaimed breathlessly, her hand going swiftly to the heavy, smoke-black tresses.
The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler
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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
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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
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He seemed unwearied, though beneath the smoke-black his eyes were hollow.
The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909
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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
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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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