Proper noun
Stains
A city in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, France.
Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose. Edith Wharton
The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves. Quentin Crisp
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Emmanuel's veins And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains. William Cowper
...and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them "Will you take my heart-- stains and all?" and they say "I will," and they ask you the same question and you say, "I will," too. Douglas Coupland
One spot stains the whole dress. Belgian Proverb