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becindered

adj

Etymology

From be- (“on, around, about, all over”) + cinder + -ed.

  1. derived from *sendʰro-✻
  2. inherited from *sindrą✻
  3. inherited from *sindr✻
  4. inherited from sinder — “cinder, dross, slag, scoria, dross of iron, impurity of metal”
  5. inherited from cyndyr
  6. formed as becindered — “be- + cinder + -ed”

Definitions

  1. Covered with cinders or ashes.

    • 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA