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"Products that lack an antioxidant or preservative are likely to develop rancidity in the oil," he wrote, "and that can be metallic, fishy, painty, or stale-nut-like depending on the recipe."
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2021
Yes," she said; "by all means let us leave these painty pictures, and we will have a chat; you shall tell me of your wanderings.
From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Dowson, Ernest Christopher
Gazette.—I should think you ought to find painty bits—within walking distance—say—right or left ten miles?
From 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. by Kitton, Fred. G.
The new cottages are finely designed, but they are too black-and-white and painty to group easily with the older, mossier buildings and the White Hart Inn, with its nobly ugly sign.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
I think the face and bearing of the Bucephalus-tamer very noble, his flesh too effeminate or painty….
From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by Paston, George
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