subfusc

Example Sentences

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The courtiers tramping across the green eye them: Suffolk with his big beard, his flashing eye, his big chest, and Master Secretary subfusc, low-slung, square.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2020

As I raised my phone to snap a picture of the amber stone columns radiant in the evening light, a cyclist in subfusc screeched and swerved to avoid me, yelling “Tourist!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 13, 2016

It was a view that mixed the bucolic, the nostalgic, the subfusc urban world, and an occasional hint of exoticism.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2013

The atmosphere is deliciously muted and studious, with the rhymes "desk"/ "dusk" conjuring the unspoken word, "subfusc".

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2011

How brave gaillard was Renoir, and how well he painted from that subfusc palette!...

From A Christmas Garland by Beerbohm, Max, Sir