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Webster 1913 Edition


Fuscous

Fus′cous

,
Adj.
[L.
fuscus
.]
Brown or grayish black; darkish.
Sad and
fuscous
colors, as black or brown, or deep purple
and the like.
Burke.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fuscous

FUS'COUS

,
Adj.
[L. fuscus.] Brown; of a dark color.

Definition 2024


fuscous

fuscous

English

Adjective

fuscous (comparative more fuscous, superlative most fuscous)

  1. Dark in color, dark-hued; dusky, swarthy.
    • 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin 2010, p. 140:
      ‘Fresh, fresh, fresh,’ one commented in deep bass on the departing soldier, and the other nodded assent, though in that cave of spoiled air and fuscous lamplight the word ‘fresh’ was misleading […].

See also

  • Appendix:Colors