fuligin
English
Etymology
From Italian fuliggine.
Noun
fuligin (uncountable)
- soot, lampblack
- 2013, Stephen Donaldson, The Last Dark. The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- 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
- a hypothetical colour darker than black
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
- “What is the tinct of your own guild?” — “Fuligin,” I told him. “The color that is darker than black.”
- 2001, “Richard Horton” (username), “REVIEW: Vernor Vinge’s ‘Across Realtime’”
- “I'm wearing black only until I find something darker.” — “Fuligin, Mark. Fuligin.”
- 2003, “Mike Andrews” (username), “hosteurope blackhat?”
- More like fuligin: darker than an event horizon.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
Adjective
fuligin (not comparable)
- fuliginous; sooty or black
- of the colour fuligin
- 1986, Julia Ecklar, “Terminus Est”:
- The shadow hovers o’er us, old and long,
Its power fuligin and vast.
- The shadow hovers o’er us, old and long,
- 1986, Julia Ecklar, “Terminus Est”: