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

She was gloriously beautiful, too; even her brief experience in the west had brought back the missing roses to her cheek, and had banished the bister circles from beneath her eyes.

From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

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

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

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