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Fuscous

//ˈfʌskəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a dark, brownish-grey color; dark-hued, dusky, swarthy.

    "‘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 […]."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of something having a dusky brownish grey color wordnet

Etymology

From Latin fusc(us) (“dark, dusky”) + -ous.

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