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ennegriment

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Etymology

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From ennegrir +‎ -ment.

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Noun

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ennegriment m (plural ennegriments)

  1. blackening (action or efect of blackening or becoming black)
    • 2003, Francesc Xavier Altés i Aguiló, La imatge de la Mare de Déu de Montserrat[1], Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, →ISBN, page 134:
      Seria el pintor i escriptor Antonio Ponz (1725-1792) qui, en el volum ca-torzè del seu Viage de España, publicat a Madrid l'any 1788, posaria definitivament en circulació el caràcter ligni de la imatge i sobretot la del seu suposat i famós ennegriment a causa de la pols i del fum de llànties, ciris i encens:
      It would be the painter and writer Antonio Ponz (1725-1792) who, in the fourteenth volume of his Viage de España, published in Madrid in 1788, would definitively put into circulation the wooden character of the image and above all that of its supposed and famous blackening due to the dust and smoke of lamps, candles and incense:

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