bistre

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From French bistre.

Her face, with intent eyes just touched with bistre, had in the moonlight a most strange, otherworld look. — Tatterdemalion, John Galsworthy
Thoughts of the elmy fields and the bistre furrows of Elstree and the tasselled coppices of Tours crowded Burton's brain; and he wrote: "I hear the sound I used to hear, The laugh of joy, the groan of pain, The sounds of childhood sound again Death must be near." — The Life of Sir Richard Burton, Thomas Wright
She knew him by heart, every detail of him, the hair, close-cropped, that left clean the full backward curve of his head; his face with its patches of ash and bistre; his eyes, hazel, lucid, intent, sunk under irritable brows; his mouth, narrowish, the lower lip full, pushed forward with the slight prominence of its jaw, the upper lip accentuated by the tilt of its moustache. — The Creators: A Comedy, May Sinclair

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