sootlike

• a word derived from soot.
  soot

  noun

  a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.

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sootlike

Meanwhile from the steppe slow, ponderous grey oxen with sharp horns are drawing an endless succession of wagon-loads of threshed grain through rich, black, sootlike dust.

From Through Russia by C. J. Hogarth

Related Words

• ash
• grit
• gunk
• residue
• sediment
• smoke