Becindered
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Becindered is an adjective meaning Covered with cinders or ashes.
Meaning
Covered with cinders or ashes.
Example Sentences
Towards them toiled with shuffling gait two ragged wanderers, becindered and begrimed.
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.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cindery, cinerulent, becoomed, ashy, escharred, cinderous.
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