Definitions for bistre

bistre bis·tre

Spelling: [bis-ter]
IPA: /ˈbɪs tər/

Bistre is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in bistre (beirst).

Definitions for bistre

noun

  1. a brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood, often used in pen and wash drawings.
  2. a yellowish to dark-brown color.

Origin of bistre

1720-30; French, Middle French, of obscure origin

Examples for bistre

They are drawn with Indian ink, and the two first touched with bistre and heightened with white.

One hundred copies printed upon Japan paper, with illustrations in two states, blue and bistre.

Her face, with intent eyes just touched with bistre, had in the moonlight a most strange, otherworld look.

Why, my boys rub blue and bistre till their faces run of a stream.

Of the living, four are full-grown men; three of them white, the fourth of an umber-brown, or bistre colour.

Has little body, but for washing drawings is equal in mellowness to Indian ink and bistre.

Her eyes were hideous to him in their great rings of paint and bistre.

Reddish-brown, marone, bistre with a golden light in it, suited her to perfection.

Rome is painted in purple, gold, olive, and bistre—its shadows all in the latter pigment.

A plate painted in bistre camaïeu with the Discovery of Calisto by Diana.

Word Value for bistre
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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