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Webster 1913 Edition


Soilure

Soil′ure

,
Noun.
[OF.
soillure
, F.
souillure
. See
Soil
to make dirty.]
Stain; pollution.
Shak.
Then fearing rust or
soilure
, fashioned for it
A case of silk.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Soilure

SOIL'URE

,
Noun.
Stain; pollution [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


soilure

soilure

English

Noun

soilure (plural soilures)

  1. Making or becoming dirty; soiling, staining.
    • 1913, Rebecca West, ‘Lynch Law’, The Young Rebecca, ed. Jane Marcus, Virago 1982, p. 207:
      Much more powerful than moral enthusiasm is the disinclination of the immaculate flesh to risk the soilure of the streets.

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