Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke; smoldering stuff.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition or quality of being
fuliginous ;sootiness . - noun Matter deposited by
smoke .
Etymologies
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Compare French fuliginosité.
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Examples
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"Secondly, that the blackness of this ink does proceed from the fuliginosity or sooty part of the coal of the cork which is exceeding porous and light, and that this fuliginosity is nothing but an oil very much rarefied.
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