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I examined his arm just before we came in here,—the discolourment has nearly passed away.

From "The Pomp of Yesterday" by Hocking, Joseph

It is probable that this was the black used by some of the Flemish painters, and that the pureness of the greys formed therewith is due to the property of charred substances of preventing discolourment.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas