staining

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

You dimmy clouds, which well employ your staining. — The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Philip Sidney
By strange stern ways, and through much staining blood, those feet had come to meet that water. — A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The letters were still legible, but it was perfectly clear from their blurred appearance, and from the staining of the skin round them, that efforts had been made to obliterate them. — The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

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