smutch
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She hadn’t done anything to me, and the smutch of the mud against her blue gown — the prettiest dress I ever saw.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
They were alert, well-muscled; their faces were streaked with paleness and a black smutch like dancers made up for a masquerade.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
Strether felt HIS character receive for the instant a smutch from all the wrong things he had suspected or believed.
From The Ambassadors by Henry James
But thou hast valour, dear, too much For such as this; thou hast grave embassy, Given with thy birth; would'st thou thine honour smutch With coward failing?
From A Lover's Diary, Complete by Gilbert Parker
The palm is hardly clean— But here and there an ugly smutch appears.
From The Task and Other Poems by William Cowper
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