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TIME-STAINED
Traducere în limba română
time-stained adjectiv
îngălbenit / pătat / ruginit de vechime / bătrâneţe.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
There, in the centre of it, was lying that ill-boding pile of time-stained, mildewed cards, just as Boy Jim and I had seen them years before.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My conjecture had been correct: the strangers had slipped in before us, and they now stood by the vault of the Rochesters, their backs towards us, viewing through the rails the old time-stained marble tomb, where a kneeling angel guarded the remains of Damer de Rochester, slain at Marston Moor in the time of the civil wars, and of Elizabeth, his wife.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)