fusc

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The result of an excessive observation of the startling facts of life, a work appropriate to the violent energy of realistic prose, has been a general exaggeration of the darker tints, an insistence on that prominence of what was called the "sub-fusc" colours which art-critics of a century ago judged essential to sublimity in all art.

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  1. Same as fuscous. [Rare.] Expectation was alert on the receipt of your strange-shaped present, while yet undisclosed from its fusc envelope. Lamb, To H. C. Robinson.

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  • “Fox, lay that on, please.” Fox went to the telephone and established a sub-fusc conversation with the Yard. —  Killer Dolphin - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 24
  • The result of an excessive observation of the startling facts of life, a work appropriate to the violent energy of realistic prose, has been a general exaggeration of the darker tints, an insistence on that prominence of what was called the "sub-fusc" colours which art-critics of a century ago judged essential to sublimity in all art. —  Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
 

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese fusco = Italian fosco, fusco, from L. fuscus, dark, swarthy, dusky, tawny, prob. orig. *furscus, allied to furvus, dark, dusky, gloomy, and perhaps ult. to English brown, q. v. Cf. fuscous.
 

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