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Bistre

noun
1.
A water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot.  Synonym: bister.





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"Bistre" Quotes from Famous Books



... fitly to the time of day. They had been, for him, at early morning, pretty middling white, that is whity-brown; thence they passed, with the passing hour kindly, through the shades of burnt sienna, raw umber, and bistre; until, just as we may notice in the case of marking-ink; that which, five minutes ago, was as water only delicately dirtied, has become ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper


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