cinereous vs sooty

cinereous

adj
  • Of an ash-gray colour. 

  • Containing ashes. 

  • Like ashes. 

sooty

adj
  • Of the color of soot. 

  • Of, relating to, or producing soot. 

  • Soiled with soot 

verb
  • To blacken or make dirty with soot. 

How often have the words cinereous and sooty occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )