Meaning of becindered | Babel Free

Definitions

Covered with cinders or ashes.

Examples

“He lit a fire in the dining-room, and the chimney was damp and smoked abominably, so that when he had fed full on tinned meats he was fain to let⟳ the fire go out and to sit⟳ in his fur-lined overcoat by the becindered grate, now fast growing cold, and smoke⟳ pipe after pipe of gloomy reflection.”

“All is fresh, clean⟳, and clear to the jaded traveller, emerging like⟳ an incipient culm-pile in his becindered state from the eight hours of soft-coal inhalation which constitutes his chief impression of the trip⟳ up from New York.”

“Towards them toiled with shuffling gait two ragged wanderers, becindered and begrimed.”

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