"cindery" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1993 November 19, Lee Sandlin, “The American Scheme”, in Chicago Reader",
          "text": "A new interstate blasted like an infinite airstrip straight through the hills toward the horizon; it had been done so brutally that we kept seeing on either side of the freeway corridor the stump-ends of the old cindery roads, and boarded-up tourist traps dangling precariously on the sheared hillsides.",
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          "ref": "1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy",
          "text": "The same snow lies over the fens and marshes and freezes Quixote's windmills to a standstill against the cindery Flemish sky.",
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          "ref": "1913, Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World",
          "text": "Even the form of a crater can but rarely be discovered on the summits of the many red cindery hills; yet the more recent streams can be distinguished on the coast, forming lines of cliffs of less height, but stretching out in advance of those belonging to an older series: the height of the cliffs thus affording a rude measure of the age of the streams.",
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          "ref": "1884, John Addington Symonds, New Italian sketches",
          "text": "The whole of this coast has been spoiled by the recent upheaval of Monte Nuovo with its lava floods and cindery deluges.",
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          "ref": "1880, Charles Dickens, The Letters of Charles Dickens",
          "text": "There were men there who made such speeches and expressed such sentiments as any moderately intelligent dustman would have blushed through his cindery bloom to have thought of.",
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          "ref": "1873, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873.",
          "text": "All at once a shriek or yell of \"Hard aport!\" and a great iron outward-bound steamer from Hong-Kong bursts into the unwieldy Chinaman, goes crunching through her like ripping pasteboard; tears her open; snarls through steamy nostrils and cindery fiery mouth, and growls over her wreck.",
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          "ref": "1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War",
          "text": "The wagon mired and cannon dragged Have trenched their scar; the plain Tramped like the cindery beach of the damned-- A site for the city of Cain.",
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        "covered in cinders"
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          "word": "cinderous"
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          "ref": "1913, Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World",
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