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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--fuscous fuscous (FUS-kuhs) adjective Of a brownish-gray color; dusky. [From Latin fuscus (dusky).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "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. X-Bonus A timid question will always receive a confident answer. -Henry Lytton Bulwer, diplomat and author (1801-1872)

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