stain
/steɪn/ nom B2En français : tache, souillure, colorant
- A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances.
- A blemish on one's character or reputation.
- A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
- A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
- One of a number of non-standard tinctures used chiefly in post-medieval heraldry, especially tenné, murrey, or sanguine.
Pluriel stains
Dans la bibliothèque
Few have passed through this revolutionary period, in the midst of which we were born, without some stain of infamy or blood to soil the uniform of the soldier, or the gown of the magistrate.
But there was no stain.”
But there might have been stains, and that would have helped us.
The stain on the windowsill conveys the same idea.
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