finger mark
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of finger mark
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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Where he presses, the finger mark remains, filling up sluggishly.
From Pardners by Rex Ellingwood Beach
There's glass knobs on all the doors as will show every finger mark, and will keep me busy wiping from dawn to dark.
From Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Anne Warner
Timothy: Why wouldn't I, and she at this minute fighting and barging at some poor travelling man, saying he laid a finger mark of bacon-grease upon the lintel of the door.
From Three Wonder Plays by Lady Gregory
It was written in great agitation and almost illegible, and at the bottom of the paper there was a dirty smudge that might have been a tear stain or a finger mark.
From Fortitude by Sir Hugh Walpole
When the old lady’s keen eyes, reinforced by her strongest glasses, were unable to discern so much as a finger mark upon anything, Iris knew that it was clean, and not before.
From The Master's Violin by Myrtle Reed
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