fuliginous adjective. [fju:'lɪdʒɪnǝs] L16.
[Late Latin fuliginosus, from fuligo, fuligin- soot: see -OUS.]
1. Of a vapour or exhalation: thick and noxious, and said to be formed by organic combustion. L16-E18.

2. Of, containing, or resembling soot; sooty. E17.
■ R. C. Hutchinson The fuliginous interior of a one-roomed timber house. fig.:
■ Carlyle A very fuliginous set of doctrines.
b. Covered or blackened with soot. Chiefly joc. M18.

3. Sooty-coloured, dusky. E19.

■ fuligi'nosity noun the condition or quality of being fuliginous or sooty; (in pl.) sooty matter: M18.

■ fuliginously adverb M18.

■ fuliginousness noun (long rare) L16.

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