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sooty

ˈsuti
WordNet
Standing young man dressed in a sooty black 'habit', a pink satin vest trimmed with fur and red breeches. The bobbed hair is curled on the side. Accessories: hat, breloques, shoes with round buckles. The print is part of the 11th Cahier, 3rd année, from the series Magasin des Modes Nouvelles Françaises et Anglaises. The series consists of 172 fashion prints, published by Buisson, Paris, November 20, 1786 - December 21, 1789.
Standing young man dressed in a sooty black 'habit', a pink satin vest trimmed with fur and red breeches. The bobbed hair is curled on the side. Accessories: hat, breloques, shoes with round buckles. The print is part of the 11th Cahier, 3rd année, from the series Magasin des Modes Nouvelles Françaises et Anglaises. The series consists of 172 fashion prints, published by Buisson, Paris, November 20, 1786 - December 21, 1789.
  1. (adj) sooty
    of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
  2. (adj) sooty
    covered with or as if with soot "a sooty chimney"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Sooty
    Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark. "The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron."
  2. Sooty
    Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. "Fire of sooty coal."
  3. Sooty
    To black or foul with soot. "Sootied with noisome smoke."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. sooty
    Covered or marked with soot; black with soot.
  2. sooty
    Producing soot.
  3. sooty
    Produced by soot; consisting of soot.
  4. sooty
    Resembling soot; dark; dusky.
  5. sooty
    In zoology and botany, fuliginous; of a dusky or dark fuscous color: specifically noting many animals.
  6. sooty
    To black or foul with soot.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Sooty
    consisting of, or like, soot
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. stig,. See Soot

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. sót; Dan. sod.

Usage in the news

Worse, they create the sticky honeydew on which sooty mold grows. chronicle.augusta.com

The Sooty Tern uses its body to cast a shadow in order to protect its young chick from the blazing equatorial sun. pbs.org

Cold, sooty air and heightened avalanche danger. sltrib.com

1 in 3 Americans breathing sooty air. csmonitor.com

Reader photos of Puerto Rican Tody, Barn Swallow, Sunbittern, American Robin, Sooty Shearwater, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown Jay, Rough-legged Hawk, Yellow Warbler, and other birds. birdersworld.com

These whiteflies will produce "honeydew," a sugary substance, which causes the growth of sooty mold. fox4now.com

Woodsmoke is the prime culprit driving spikes in sooty, toxic air that's leaving Seattle and Tacoma residents gasping for breath. kcts.org

Updating a list made in 2004, the EPA has added 15 cities to the sooty air list, mostly in states like Alaska, Utah, Idaho and Wisconsin. kake.com

A genetic study suggests that Nevada has both subgroups (sooty and dusky). nevadamagazine.com

He really does have a great head o' hair and whoever taught him how to line his eyes in sooty black kohl had mad skills. kqvt.com

Gus Ben David has had multiple calls from people who have found sooty owls and other wildlife in their houses or have heard strange noises coming from their fireplaces. mailto:circulation@mvgazette.com

The adult birds may be almost entirely black, especially in spring, while younger and winter-plumaged birds are white or nearly so below, with varying amounts of sooty black above and silver underwings. al.com

When, at last, she lit a lamp to discover what was tormenting him, she saw his tongue was black -- scorched and sooty. nytimes.com

Out of that sooty workspace, things lovely, fragile and colorful are born. midweek.com

Usage in literature

He was unrecognizable, with his black face, his sooty clothes and his eyes glowing with fever. "The Blonde Lady" by Maurice Leblanc

We will hope Tom will be wiser, now he has got safe out of his sooty old shell. "The Water-Babies" by Charles Kingsley

Their house consisted of two rooms, a living room and a sleeping closet, both open to the thatch, which was sooty with smoke. "The Little Manx Nation - 1891" by Hall Caine

The "sooty-fox" is a variety of the "Arctic," distinguished from it only by its colour, which is of a uniform blackish brown. "Popular Adventure Tales" by Mayne Reid

The buildings below, black and sooty, their jagged outlines like the stumps of rotten teeth. "This Crowded Earth" by Robert Bloch

His hands and face were sooty. "The Ghost Breaker" by Charles Goddard

A thick, black, sooty dust lies upon everything. "American Sketches" by Charles Whibley

We left Martigues in an extraordinary and unusual fog, reminiscent of London, except that it was not black and sooty. "The Automobilist Abroad" by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

I am encircled with squalor, with hunger, rage, and sooty desperation. "Past and Present" by Thomas Carlyle

There was about Merlier a smell of death like the smell of sooty smoke. "Mountain Blood" by Joseph Hergesheimer

Usage in poetry
And with the light that swiftly changes,
The landscape never stays the same.
One moment clad in sooty shadows,
The next-the woods are all aflame.
Can this earth run o'er with beauty,
Laugh through leaf and flower and grain,
While in close-pent court and lane,
In the air so thick and sooty,
Little ones pace to and fro,
Weighted with their parents' woe?
Lady, we are dancing, as we danced in old England
When the may was more than may, very long ago:
As for our may-coats, it was your white hands, lady,
Filled our sooty hearts and minds with blossom, white as snow.
Many a little lad had we, chirruping in the chimney-tops,
Twirling out a sooty broom, a blot against the blue.
Ah, but when we called to him, and when he saw and ran to her,
All our winter ended, and our world was made anew.
And fie upon the wicked folks who did this cruel thing!
I wish some mighty nobleman would go and tell the king;
For to steal him from his house and home must be a crying sin,
Though he was a little negro boy, and had a sooty skin.
Enceladus, earth-born Enceladus,
Laid hold upon the rosy Gates of Heaven,
And shook them with gigantic sooty hands,
Asking he knew not what, but not for alms;
And the Gates, opened as in jest;
And, like a sooty jest, he stumbled in.