单词 | blackener |
释义 | blackenern. A person who or thing that blackens (in various senses of blacken v.). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > blackening agent > [noun] > one who blackens blexterc1440 blacker1611 blackener1632 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A Blacker, or Blackener, noircisseur. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xxvi. 114 A partial whitener of his own cause, or blackener of another's. 1768 A. Dour tr. 'Inayat Allah Tales I. viii. 138 Another old impotent blackener of female fame thus blotted the page of divine beauty. a1806 H. K. White Poet. Wks. (1830) 159 Ill-fated maid..the unhappy bane Of life, and blackener of each brighter scene. 1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 28 Oct. 278/2 Sulphuretted hydrogen, that terrible blackener of plate. 1903 Amer. Eccl. Rev. Aug. 122 How would you feel yourself towards a blackener of your character? 1978 H. E. L. Andrew Batsford Encycl. Crafts 120/1 This is done with a commercial blackener sold by gunsmiths and called ‘gun blue’. 2009 S. Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel (Nexis) 21 Sept. The mascara is formulated with kohl-black pigments that deliver twice the blackener to give you that sought-after molten look. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1632 |
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