smirched, ppl. a.
(smɜːtʃt)
[f. prec.]
Marked, soiled, made dirty, etc., with a smirch or stain.
| 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, iii. iii. 17 Impious Warre,..with his smyrcht complexion. 1599 ― Much Ado iii. iii. 145 The smircht worm-eaten tapestrie. 1746 Smollett Advice 72 From the smirch'd scullion to th' embroider'd Peer. 1833 M. Scott Cruise Midge (1859) 489 He hung motionless across the rope like a smirched and half burnt fleece. 1863 Woolner My Beautiful Lady 157 Here a smirched artisan who merely bolts The plates of iron fortress. |