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soots

  • present tense form
    of soot (3rd person singular).
    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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Last year in Ramadan he imposed midnight curfew on coffeehouses and other soots where revelers congregated until dawn.

From Time Magazine Archive

John bought each uv the male sons uv Ham too soots uv close per annum, and each uv the female sons uv Ham one soot.

From "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. by Thomas Nast

And me wi' two soots as refuses to be wore out not to mention this here.

From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

The foreheads of both mother and child are marked with the soots from the burning camphor.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

He won’t go into one o’ your soots, Mr Dutch, I know.”

From Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake by George Manville Fenn