Definitions for bistres

bistres bis·tre

Spelling: [bis-ter]
IPA: /ˈbɪs tər/

Bistres is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in bistres (beirsst).

Definitions for bistres

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 bistres

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

Examples for bistres

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for bistres
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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