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Adjective- Of, relating to, or containing soot.

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Usage examples (28)
  • Adjective : the fuliginous air hanging over an industrial city
  • Tempestuous air, dark and fuliginous, how cause of melancholy
  • 'Tis not amiss to bore the skull with an instrument, to let out the fuliginous vapours.
  • And how comes it that spirits and fuliginous vapours can pass hither and thither without admixture or confusion?
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