Both Uses of
tarnish
in
Great Expectations
- There were none there, and she took from her pocket a yellow set of ivory tablets, mounted in tarnished gold, and wrote upon them with a pencil in a case of tarnished gold that hung from her neck.†
Chpt 49 *
- There were none there, and she took from her pocket a yellow set of ivory tablets, mounted in tarnished gold, and wrote upon them with a pencil in a case of tarnished gold that hung from her neck.†
Chpt 49
Definition:
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(tarnish as in: tarnished silver) undesired loss of shine or spotting on a metal surface