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Fuscous   Listen
adjective
Fuscous  adj.  Brown or grayish black; darkish. "Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple and the like."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fuscous" Quotes from Famous Books



... crudities. We feel the worse side of the eighteenth century when Burke tells us that a thirst for Variety in architecture is sure to leave very little true taste; or that an air of robustness and strength is very prejudicial to beauty; or that sad fuscous colours are indispensable for sublimity. Many of the sections, again, are little more than expanded definitions from the dictionary. Any tyro may now be shocked at such a proposition as that beauty ...
— Burke • John Morley



Words linked to "Fuscous" :   taupe



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