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单词 smoke-dinged
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smoke-dinged
That has been made dirty or of a (disagreeably) dark or dull colour, esp. with smoke, grime, etc.; dingy, dull, discoloured. Now chiefly as the second element in compounds, esp. in smoke-dinged.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > dingy or discoloured
foul1547
miscoloured1648
dingy1665
tarnished1716
dinged1725
distained1838
1725 M. A. Prude (ed. 2) II. 2 The swift Horses, in Clouds of Dust, fled the dinged Town, and by their eager Course seem'd to seek the untainted fragrant Country Air.
1856 Med. & Surg. Reporter Feb. 76 Improvement since the..treatment... Face has not so dinged a hue.
1870 L. O. Blake Rich & Rare I. viii. 98 The lower windows all gloomy and barred—as the ground floors of most palaces in Italy generally are—the walls time-dinged.
1959 Big Spring (Texas) Herald 28 Apr. b2/6 The soot-covered snow, the smoke-dinged walls and the general untidiness of Washington's famed Pennsylvania Avenue.
2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 13 Mar. ix. 9/3 The Oak Bar's imperiousness was intact, if its service and setting now suggest not much more than an elegant pub—..with art, smoke-dinged at that.
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