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bister

bister is the alternative spelling of bistre.

Meaning of bistre

Noun

bistre (countable and uncountable, plural bistres)

  1. A brown pigment made from soot, especially from beech wood.
  2. A mid-to-dark brown color resembling the pigment.
    • [O]h! what an object he was! The rings round his eyes were of the colour of bistre […]1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...

Forms of bister

pluralbisters

Questions about bister

What is bister the alternative spelling of?
Bister is the alternative spelling of bistre.

Words near bister in the dictionary

  1. bistelic
  2. bistellar
  3. bistellar flip
  4. bistellar flips
  5. bistephanic
  6. bister
  7. bistered
  8. bisterigmate
  9. bisters
  10. bistetrazole
  11. bistetrazoles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bister (page history and authors); bistre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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