sootiness
- a word derived from sooty.
Example Sentences
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Ciccio opened his tawny-yellowish eyes, that seemed to have been put in with a dirty finger, as the saying goes, owing to the sootiness of the lashes and brows.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
A fine specimen should be even in colour, of a bluish-lilac tint, with no sootiness or black, and though light be firm and rich in tone, the nose and pads dark, and the eyes orange-yellow.
From Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Weir, Harrison
The sootiness of mezzotint is dangerous—in bad hands it is the "black art" of Prince Rupert, though the term was applied to a metal of the prince's invention, not to his discovery of mezzotint.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various
The stone was a little weathered, but showed no marks of the grimy sootiness which I was used to on every London building more than a year old.
From News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance by Morris, William
