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charcoal

/ˈt͡ʃɑɹ.koʊl/ adjective C2
  1. Of a dark gray colour.
  2. Made of charcoal.
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## The Charcoal-Burner And The Fuller
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 5 · B2
A CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 5 · B2
The Fuller replied, “The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 5 · B2
And when the morning came and the mists were all white and cold, he saw the man’s child pick up a wicker pot plastered inside with earth, fill it with lumps of red-hot charcoal, put it under his blanket, and go out to tend the cows in the byre.
The Jungle Book, p. 20 · B2

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