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fuligin

/ˈfjuːlə.d͡ʒɪn/

fuligin noun: soot, lampblack.

Noun

fuligin (uncountable)

  1. soot, lampblack.
    • Then the Forestal took the Staff of Law, black as fuligin after her battle - -2013, Stephen Donaldson, The Last Dark. The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
  2. a hypothetical colour darker than black.
    • “What is the tinct of your own guild?” “Fuligin,” I told him. “The color that is darker than black.”1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter VI, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 57
    • “I'm wearing black only until I find something darker.” — “Fuligin, Mark. Fuligin.”2001, “Richard Horton” (username), “REVIEW: Vernor Vinge’s ‘Across Realtime’”

Adjective

fuligin (not comparable)

  1. fuliginous; sooty or black.
  2. of the colour fuligin.
    • The shadow hovers o’er us, old and long,
      Its power fuligin and vast.1986, Julia Ecklar, Terminus Est

Origin of fuligin

From Italian fuliggine.

Questions about fuligin

What does fuligin mean?
Fuligin means soot, lampblack.
What part of speech is fuligin?
Fuligin can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce fuligin?
Fuligin is pronounced /ˈfjuːlə.d͡ʒɪn/.

Words near fuligin in the dictionary

  1. fulhams
  2. Fuli
  3. Fuliang
  4. fulicine
  5. Fulidhoo
  6. fuligin
  7. fuliginose
  8. fuliginosities
  9. fuliginosity
  10. fuliginous
  11. fuliginously

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