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SOOT-BLACK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does soot-black mean?
• SOOT-BLACK (adjective)
The adjective SOOT-BLACK has 1 sense:
1. of the black color of soot
Familiarity information: SOOT-BLACK used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of the black color of soot
Synonyms:
soot-black; sooty-black
Similar:
achromatic; neutral (having no hue)
Context examples
Before two years passed, the rash pair were both dead, and laid quietly side by side under one slab. (I have seen their grave; it formed part of the pavement of a huge churchyard surrounding the grim, soot-black old cathedral of an overgrown manufacturing town in —shire.) They left a daughter, which, at its very birth, Charity received in her lap—cold as that of the snow-drift I almost stuck fast in to-night.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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