becindered
becindered adjective: covered with cinders or ashes.
Adjective
becindered (comparative more becindered, superlative most becindered)
- Covered with cinders or ashes.
- 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.1903, The Pall Mall Magazine, volume 30, page 304
- 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.1904, The Lamp, page 188
Forms of becindered
| comparative | more becindered |
|---|---|
| superlative | most becindered |
Origin of becindered
From be- (“on, around, about, all over”) + cinder + -ed.
Questions about becindered
- What does becindered mean?
- Becindered means covered with cinders or ashes.
- What part of speech is becindered?
- Becindered is an adjective.
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