2 Sentences With "smirches"

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The stains of the ink become carnal, indecent smirches — degrading, seductive (the two are the same here) — and in "Venus Mourns Adonis," just eight and a half inches tall, the tearful goddess's face and hand drown in an agonizing pool of pigment. from The New York Times
The 1894 reprint of Select Poems replaced the comment with "Browning would not have used the word if he had known its meaning". In 1911 Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve alluded to "a notorious word which smirches the skirt of Pippa Passes".; cited in Browning's error posed a dilemma for many pre-1960s lexicographers, who excluded words deemed obscene but aspired to include all words used by major writers like Browning. The 1890 Century Dictionary included the correct definition, labelled "vulgar", and noted Browning's "supposition" of its meaning.