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

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

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2011

As the players made their way across from the practice green, their identities could be hardly distinguished, thanks to the subfusc rainwear favoured by their captains for this opening day.

From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2010

The Jockey Swells' pinched-up countenance, with jutting eyebrows and practically no cheeks, had under George's racing-cap of "peacock blue" a subfusc hue like that of old furniture.

From The Country House by Galsworthy, John