Fuliginous

Quick meaning: Fuliginous is an adjective meaning Pertaining to or resembling soot in such features as colour, texture or taste; sooty, dusky.

Meaning

Pertaining to or resembling soot in such features as colour, texture or taste; sooty, dusky.

Example Sentences

I toy with shouting some tidbit more – some terrifying, unthinkable threat, some blackly fuliginous riddling hex – but my heart's not in it.

To that dingy fuliginous Operative, emerging from his soot-mill, what is the first duty I will prescribe, and offer help towards? That he clean the skin of him.

With its own fuliginous Weather, at once public and private, created of smoke billowing from Pipes, Hearths, and Stoves, the Room would provide an extraordinary sight, were any able to see […]

1729, John Woodward, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of The Fossils of England ...the Tali, and Septa, are of a more dusky, or, as Wormius expresses it, of a more fuliginous Colour, than ours in England commonly are.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fuligin, sootlike, fumelike, fumous, fumose, sooted.

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