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Fuliginous   Listen
adjective
Fuliginous  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.
2.
Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Fuliginous" Quotes from Famous Books



... of street dust are supplemented by the mischiefs of coal smoke, to an aggravated degree. Wherever soft coal is burned as the principal fuel, a black, fuliginous substance goes floating through the air, and soils every thing it touches. It penetrates into houses and public buildings, often intensified by their own interior use of the same generator of dirt, and covers the books of the library with its foul ...
— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford
... and Baruch (we will call them by their Christian names for the sake of clearness) were sitting, one on each side of Max, at the middle of a table that was rather ill lighted by the fuliginous gleams of four tallow candles of eight to the pound. A dozen to fifteen bottles of various wines had just been drunk, for only eleven of the Knights were present. Baruch—whose name indicates pretty clearly that Calvinism still kept some hold ...
— The Celibates - Includes: Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours, and The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac


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