A French witch in 1652 declared that at the Sabbath 'le diable s'y at mis en feu et en donné des cendres lesquelles tous faisaient voller en l'air pour faire mancquer les fruits de la terre'.
Not even, as Rosselin had thought, les cendres tièdes d'un feu éteint.
The 'cendres bleues en pates' of the French differ from the above mainly in a solution of chloride of copper being employed, and in the resulting green precipitate being turned blue by the action of carbonate of potassa.
The cendres bleues en pate of the French, though analogous, are in some respects a different preparation.
In Burgundy, the well-known cendres gravelees are made by incinerating the lees of wine pressed into cakes, and dried in the sun; the ashes contain fully 16 per cent.
It is repeatedly sprinkled with cendres gravelees (crude pearl ashes), or soda (barilla) well powdered and sifted at the rate of 6 pounds for 120 lbs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cendres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
