Too often, in the years between 800 and 1050, the everyday sun declined through the smirch of flame and smoke of a monastery or town robbed and burnt.
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Smirch
/smɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃ/
Synonyms for "smirch" (149 found)
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there were some business transactions which savored of dangerous speculation, if not dishonesty; and around it all lay the smirch of the Freedmen's Bank.
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CELIA. I'll put myself in poor and mean attire, / And with a kind of umber smirch my face; / The like do you; so shall we pass along, / And never stir assailants.
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Girls thought that by leaping over the fires without being smirched they made sure of a happy marriage.
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