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Soilure   Listen
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Soilure  n.  Stain; pollution. "Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Soilure" Quotes from Famous Books



... the lily maid of Astolat, High in her chamber up a tower to the east Guarded the sacred shield of Lancelot; Which first she placed where the morning's earliest ray Might strike it, and awake her with the gleam; Then fearing rust or soilure fashioned for it A case of silk, and braided thereupon All the devices blazoned on the shield In their own tinct, and added, of her wit, A border fantasy of branch and flower, And yellow-throated nestling in the nest. Nor rested thus content, but day by day, Leaving her household ...
— Idylls of the King • Alfred, Lord Tennyson

... was going to be! But indeed I felt just then as if I had always been happy. It was almost as though some blessed stream of holy water had washed my memory clean of all the soilure of my recent days in London, for sure I am that if anybody had at that moment mentioned Ilford and the East End, the bricklayer and the Jew, or spoken of the maternity homes and the orphanages, I should ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine



Words linked to "Soilure" :   pollution, staining, soiling, spotting, dirtying, soil, change of state, maculation



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