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adjective
- Pertaining to soot; sooty.
- 1934: On the beach, masts and chimneys interlaced, and like a shadow the figure of Albertine gliding through the surf, fusing into the mysterious quick and prism of a protoplasmic realm, uniting her shadw to the dream and harbinger of death. " Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
- 1972: I toy with shouting some tidbit more " some terrifying, unthinkable threat, some blackly riddling hex " but my heart's not in it. " John Gardner, Grendel (London 1972, p. 10)
- 1997: With its own 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 " Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
Etymology: Late Latin fuliginosus, from fuligo "soot".
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