ppl. a. [f. prec.] Marked, soiled, made dirty, etc., with a smirch or stain.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., III. iii. 17. Impious Warre,… with his smyrcht complexion. Ibid. (1599), Much Ado, III. iii. 145. The smircht worm-eaten tapestrie.
1746. Smollett, Advice, 72. From the smirch’d scullion to th’ embroider’d Peer.
1833. M. Scott, Cruise Midge (1859), 489. He hung motionless across the rope like a smirched and half burnt fleece.
1863. Woolner, My Beautiful Lady, 157. Here a smirched artisan who merely bolts The plates of iron fortress.
