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lampblack
[ lamp-blak ]
noun
- a fine black pigment consisting of almost pure carbon collected as soot from the smoke of burning oil, gas, etc.
lampblack
/ ˈlæmpˌblæk /
noun
- a finely divided form of almost pure carbon produced by the incomplete combustion of organic compounds, such as natural gas, used in making carbon electrodes and dynamo brushes and as a pigment
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Example Sentences
He sharpened a quill with his small pen knife to scribe these things in sloe or lampblack?
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The pot of lampblack was right there, untouched in all this time.
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She was so young, but she had the same lampblack hair, the same dark eyes.
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The shoe poet sat by the glowing fireplace, polishing his boots with lampblack he had scraped from the hearth.
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“What could I have done, Bast? Smeared my face with lampblack and staged a daring midnight rescue?”
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