fuligin

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/ˈfjuːlə.d͡ʒɪn/

noun

soot, lampblack.

OriginItalian fuliggine →
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Meanings

nounfuligin (uncountable)
  1. uncountablesoot, 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. uncountablea hypothetical colour darker than black.

    2003, “Mike Andrews” (username), “hosteurope blackhat?” More like fuligin: darker than an event horizon.

    2 more examples

    “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

    2001, “Richard Horton” (username), “REVIEW: Vernor Vinge’s ‘Across Realtime’” “I'm wearing black only until I find something darker.” — “Fuligin, Mark. Fuligin.”

adjectivefuligin (not comparable)
  1. not comparablefuliginous; sooty or black.
  2. not comparableof the colour fuligin.

    The shadow hovers o’er us, old and long, Its power fuligin and vast.

    1986, Julia Ecklar, Terminus Est

Origin

  1. Italianfuliggine
  2. Englishfuligin

From Italian fuliggine.

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Chicago

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