durain

[door-eyn, dyoor-]

noun

Mineralogy.

1. the coal forming the dull layers in banded bituminous coal.

Word History and Origins

Origin of durain¹

1915–20; < Latin dūr ( us ) hard + -ain, from fusain, by analysis as a suffix

Example Sentences

Senator Jérôme Durain, a member of the Socialist Party and one of two authors of a Senate Committee report on drug trafficking in France that was completed this week, was not shocked by the killing.

Read more on New York Times

Laurent Durain, a fishmonger at the Marché d’Aligre, one of Paris’s oldest and most vibrant food markets, was worried that the salmon he had ordered from Scotland for the Christmas rush wouldn’t make it.

Read more on New York Times

Mr. Durain had ordered 1,200 oysters, and hired six additional helpers to shell them during the holidays.

Read more on New York Times