bister

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What is the difference between chalk and pastel, sepia and bister, laid and wove paper, pouncing and squaring, vellum and parchment?

From Time Magazine Archive

L. Boyer, 5 groups, 11 shades: White to cream yellow; pale pink to ochraceous yellow; bay or red brown to brown or blackish bister; rust color, cinnamon or light yellow.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

Then he observed the frightful irritation of the breasts and mouth, discovered spots of bister and copper on the skin of her body, and recoiled bewildered.

From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

She looked white and spent; there were bister circles round her eyes.

From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English by Castle, Egerton

And now a vast, open plain was seen to be spreading away, away to indeterminable distances; a plain the further limits of which veiled themselves in bister and dull ocher vapors.

From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan