fuliginous
Americanadjective
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sooty; smoky.
the fuliginous air hanging over an industrial city.
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of the color of soot, as dark gray, dull brown, black, etc.
adjective
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sooty or smoky
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of the colour of soot; dull greyish-black or brown
Other Word Forms
- fuliginously adverb
- fuliginousness noun
Etymology
Origin of fuliginous
1565–75; < Latin fūlīginōsus full of soot, equivalent to fūlīgin- (stem of fūlīgō ) soot + -ōsus -ous
Example Sentences
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Within his dusky arms the wretch he caught, And with smutched lips, fuliginous and hot, Repaid the kiss which he to Christ had given.
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At first moist and coated with a whitish fur or a mucous secretion, it afterward, if life is prolonged, grows red and shining or brown and fuliginous.
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It was vulgarly called witch-riding, and considered as arising from the weight of fuliginous spirits incumbent on the breast.
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I turned up the dull and stinking oil lamp, and tried to read; but that fuliginous glim haunted the pages.
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Yet, of recent times, verse fuliginous, clouded, and enshrouded in obscurity, has been hailed in many quarters, not only as poetry, but poetry of an exceptionally superior sort.
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