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US
/ˈfjumd/
]
[ UK /fjˈuːmd/ ]
[ UK /fjˈuːmd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of wood) darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia fumes
fumed oak
How To Use fumed In A Sentence
- If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
- The "fruitily perfumed pineapple weed" that came to Britain from Oregon in the late 19th century and then began to spread throughout the countryside, Mr. Mabey says, "exactly tracked the adoption of the treaded motor tyre, to which its ribbed seeds clung" as if the treads were the soles of climbing boots. Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
- He gnashed his teeth together and fumed silently.
- At this point, however, the quartet was wandering in a perfumed garden of psychedelic modishness, and all the better for it.
- As a rule of thumb, the villages of Barolo and La Morra produce the most perfumed win es, while Monforte d 'Alba and Serralunga produce more structured, powerful wines that require substantial cellaring. In Search of Barolo
- I was drawn to Chicken Satsivi, a Georgian dish, because of the sauce, satsivi, which is a paste of walnuts, sauteed onions, coriander, and garlic, liquidized with a broth and perfumed with cinnamon and paprika. Weekend Cookbook Challenge # 16 - Chicken Satsivi
- I identified the frightful ingredients masking the mixtures of tannin and powdered carbon with which the fish was embalmed; and I penetrated the disguise of the marinated meats, painted with sauces the colour of sewage; and I diagnosed the wine as being coloured with fuscin, perfumed with furfurol, and enforced with molasses and plaster. Là-bas
- Rue fumed silently as he hummed contentedly and she watched him closely, studying his movements and actions.
- The soap can be tinted or perfumed, if desired, with additives available from the soapmaking section of craft stores.
- Stay peachy-skinned by applying soothing, unperfumed skincare products to moisturise and protect. The Sun