Today's Word "subfusc"
Published in Vocabulary
subfusc \sub-FUHSK\ (adjective) - Dark or dull in color; drab, dusky.
"Mela never dressed in anything but drab or dull colors, and her room was decorated in similarly subfusc hues, all the better to maintain her trendily affected, gloomy mood."
Subfusc comes from Latin subfuscus, "brownish, dark," from sub-, "under" + fuscus, "dark-colored."
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