Meanings
verb
- participlepastraresimple past and past participle of distain
adjectivedistained (comparative more distained, superlative most distained)
comparative more distained · superlative most distained
- rareStained, discoloured, tarnished.
The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained.
1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Story of the Door”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 4
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