smutch

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

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, Volume 1. by Gilbert Parker

The scheme adopted was, I believe, suggested by Vice-President Howard, as shrewd and cynical a rascal as ever lived in the mire without getting smutch or splash upon his fine linen of respectability.

From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe

So she played with them as with puppies that might gambol around her, and fawn before her, but might not smutch her robes with their dirty feet, or get the opportunity to bite her hand.

From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland

This love is not so hard to smutch.

From The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by William Morris