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becindered en · ADJ

Etymology

From be- (“on, around, about, all over”) + cinder + -ed.

Meanings

1. Covered with cinders or ashes.
   • Towards them toiled with shuffling gait two ragged wanderers, becindered and begrimed. 1921, George Randolph Chester, Lillian Chester, The Son of Wallingford, page 75:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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