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English
Etymology
From Latin fusc(us) (“dark, dusky”) + -ous.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fuscous (comparative more fuscous, superlative most fuscous)
- Of a dark, brownish-grey color; dark-hued, dusky, swarthy.
1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 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 […].
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