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- noun Plural form of
stainer .
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Literally meaning "tablecloth stainers", because of its deep red sauce, manchamanteles can be made with chicken, pork, or a combination of the two.
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Literally meaning "tablecloth stainers", because of its deep red sauce, manchamanteles can be made with chicken, pork, or a combination of the two.
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You go with who you know to be telling the truth and ink stainers are still coming the closest.
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Literally meaning "tablecloth stainers", because of its deep red sauce, manchamanteles can be made with chicken, pork, or a combination of the two.
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Several sources and shades of white were available to painters, potters, and glass stainers, each with distinct visual and mechanical properties.
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It stands well when well seasoned, and is used for engraved blocks for calico printers, paper stainers, and for various other purposes.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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It is a pigment much used by paper-stainers, and in the commonest distemper painting, &c., but is too perishable to merit the attention of the artist.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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The toast was drunk, and Turner, after returning thanks for it, proposed the health of the British _paper-stainers_.
The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection Various
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It is easy to laugh at all that ensued when first the mummers and the stainers of canvas strayed into Mayfair.
The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914
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Bah! it sickens me sometimes to read the way you paper-stainers talk about
Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893
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