Misshading

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An instance of misshading countable, uncountable

    "Nor can we do better than to borrow the portrait of this sui-generis eccentricity which we find hanging up on the walls of the Knickerbocker -– drawn by one of its most skilful artists, with only one or two misshadings of the pencil"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of misshade form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"Nor can we do better than to borrow the portrait of this sui-generis eccentricity which we find hanging up on the walls of the Knickerbocker -– drawn by one of its most skilful artists, with only one or two misshadings of the pencil"

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