bistre
See also: bistré
English
Alternative forms
- bister
Etymology
French bistre
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɪstə(ɹ)/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɪstɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
Noun
bistre (countable and uncountable, plural bistres)
- A brown pigment made from soot, especially from beech wood.
- A mid-to-dark brown color resembling the pigment.
- bistre:
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, OCLC 2057953:
- [O]h! what an object he was! The rings round his eyes were of the colour of bistre […]
Translations
brown pigment
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mid-to-dark brown
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Anagrams
- Bertis, Breits, Sibert, bestir, bister, biters, bitser, rebits, tribes
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bistʁ/
Audio (file) - Homophones: bistrent, bistres
Adjective
bistre (plural bistres)
- bistre
Noun
bistre m (plural bistres)
- bistre
Derived terms
- bistrer
Descendants
- → Catalan: bistre
- → English: bistre
- → Italian: bistro
- → Portuguese: bistre
Verb
bistre
- inflection of bistrer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “bistre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Serbo-Croatian
Adjective
bistre
- inflection of bistar:
- masculine accusative plural
- feminine genitive singular
- feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural