plain-stained

Updated: May 1, 2025

It was a room so low-pitched that Svidrigailov could only just stand up in it; it had one window; the bed, which was very dirty, and the plain-stained chair and table almost filled it up. The walls looked as though they were made of planks, covered with shabby paper, so torn and dusty that the pattern was indistinguishable, though the general colour yellow could still be made out.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment