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tar¹ (tär)

1. A dark, oily, viscous material, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons, produced by the destructive distillation of organic substances such as wood, coal, or peat.

2. Coal tar.

3. A solid residue of tobacco smoke containing byproducts of combustion.

tr.v. tarred, tar·ring, tars

To coat with or as if with tar.

Idioms:

tar and feather

1. To punish (a person) by covering with tar and feathers.

2. To criticize severely and devastatingly; excoriate.

tarred with the same brush

Having the same faults or bad qualities.

[Middle English, from Old English teru; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]

tar² (tär)

n. Informal

A sailor.

[Possibly short for tarpaulin.]

Translations

tarred [ˈtɑː^rd] adj [road, roof] → goudronné(e)

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And a smile played round the King's lips as he finished speaking, and his courtiers and counsellors shook with laughter when they thought of the old woman's folly, and praised the King's wise device, and said to each other, 'What a joke it will be when we see the pair of them tarred and feathered

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And therefore, let not the knights of that honorable company (none of whom, I venture to say, have ever had to do with a whale like their great patron), let them never eye a Nantucketer with disdain, since even in our woollen frocks and tarred trowsers we are much better entitled to st.

Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context

You can let him think, if you will, that she is tarred with the same brush as those infamous and hypocritical relatives of hers who sent her father out to die.

A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context

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