charcoal
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English
Etymology
Middle English charcole "charcoal" from charren (“to turn", from Old English cierran "to turn"”) + cole (“coal", from Old English col "coal”). More at ajar, coal.
Pronunciation
Noun
charcoal (plural charcoals)
- Impure carbon obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of oxygen.
- A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
- 1879 Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, page 166:
- He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
- 1879 Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, page 166:
- A drawing made with charcoal.
- A very dark gray colour.
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charcoal colour:
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Adjective
charcoal
- Of a dark gray colour.
Translations
colour
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Derived terms
- activated charcoal
- charcoal burner
- charcoal drawing
- charcoal grey
Related terms
Verb
to charcoal (third-person singular simple present charcoals, present participle charcoaling, simple past and past participle charcoaled)
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