Of a brownish-gray color; dusky.
[From Latin fuscus (dusky).]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=fuscous
"What do you miss most when you are away? Sitting in a wind tower at sunset, drinking cold beer and watching the play of light on the roofs below - ancient corrugated iron rusted into every fuscous shade imaginable."
Alexander Frater; My Kind of Town; The Sunday Telegraph (London, UK); Sep 12, 2004.
This week's theme: words for colors.
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