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Char   /tʃɑr/   Listen
Char

noun
1.
A charred substance.
2.
A human female employed to do housework.  Synonyms: charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, woman.  "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"
3.
Any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus.  Synonym: charr.
verb
1.
Burn to charcoal.  Synonym: coal.
2.
Burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color.  Synonyms: blacken, scorch, sear.  "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece" , "The flames scorched the ceiling"



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"Char" Quotes from Famous Books



... last night for thinking of that poor Christina Coles," she said, "the char-woman told me yesterday that the child had been obliged to go out and pawn some of her things in order to get the money to pay her ...
— The Wheel of Life • Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

... But I must confess that I was far from heroic. Perhaps it is true, and not an invention, that Marcus Scaevola voluntarily thrust his hand into the altar-fire and stood mute and smiling, and watched it burn and char. If any man ever did that he had more self- control than I ever had. I could repress every indication of my agonies. I fainted so many times that I lost count. The afternoon was drawing on towards evening before Ravillanus began ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White

... spoil below, by which an unnecessary expence is incurred.—Any of the following articles may be served as a relish, with the cheese, after dinner. Baked or pickled fish done high, Dutch pickled herrings: sardinias, which eat like anchovy, but are larger: anchovies, potted char, ditto lampreys: potted birds made high, caviare and sippets of toast: salad, radishes, French pie, cold butter, potted ...
— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton

... thought you never aired the gee-gees now. Something new for you, isn't it? May I get in and have a pawt? We shall be fined forty bob and costs at Marlborough Street if we hold up the traffic. Say, you look ripping in this char a bancs, upon my soul ...
— Aladdin of London - or Lodestar • Sir Max Pemberton

... without difficulty. We had fine weather all the way down the Baltic, and came off a neat little village five miles from Copenhagen, on the afternoon of Sunday. Here we landed in a pilot-boat, with some Danish gentlemen, who were very civil to us, and by their aid we engaged a char-a-banc, and drove to Copenhagen the same evening. We spent five very pleasant days there, seeing numerous objects of interest. I will not attempt to describe them now. Cousin Giles says I must ...
— Fred Markham in Russia - The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar • W. H. G. Kingston


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