blackened
adjective B2- Darkened to the point of appearing black; as
- Synonym of charred.
- Synonym of blued.
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This was destroyed by fire in 1543, and some of its smoke-blackened corner stones were used when, in Jacobean times, a brick country house rose upon the ruins of the feudal castle.
It was a fine apartment in which we found ourselves, large, lofty, and heavily raftered with huge baulks of age-blackened oak.
“Let all be forgotten as a sorrowful dream,” said Beauchamp; “let it vanish as the last sparks from the blackened paper, and disappear as the smoke from those silent ashes.”
Instead, he discovered only a small, blackened plaque on an industrial wall marking the approximate site of the original Globe Theatre.
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