Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of ashes; ashy; cinereous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like ashes; ash-colored; cinereous.
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- adjective Like
ashes ; ash-coloured; cinerous.
Etymologies
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Latin cineraceus, from cinis ashes.
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Examples
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To the east of this water, black cineraceous earth shows where the smith had been at work: we applied the quarrymen to sift it, without other results but bits of glass, copper, and iron nails.
The Land of Midian 2003
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To the east of this water, black cineraceous earth shows where the smith had been at work: we applied the quarrymen to sift it, without other results but bits of glass, copper, and iron nails.
The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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