oven-stained

Updated: August 1, 2026

The table was filled with empty cans and tin plates and cracked, oven-stained bowls and iron-handled knives and forks, and the bunk in the corner was a tumble of gray blankets and unpleasant, red-flowered comforts corner-wads, Charming Billy was used to calling them and for pillows there were two square, calico-covered cushions, depressingly ugly in pattern and not over-clean.

B. M. Bower - The Long Shadow