sooty

1. (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.Examples: "While thus reduced, his few surviving senses were at once called into acute activity by the appearance of a sooty little negro, who placed within his grasp a misshapen fold of dirty paper, […]"; "And, though I've laughed at your expense, / O sister of the sooty hue, / No man who has a heart and sense / Would do one deed to injure you."Synonyms: black, dusky, inky, sable, swarthyliteraryobsolete