Meaning of smouch | Babel Free

Examples

“Suppose an artist, after having completed such a picture, in a moment of intoxication, goes into his studio, takes his brush, dips it into black paint, and applies it thereto. Only one smouch and the work of months is destroyed!”

“[…]and on her breast a baby, wet as she, smiling and cooing, but with a great crimson smouch on its tiny shoulder.”

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