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

A pair of subfusc coloured trousers creased and looking absolutely new were presented to him in the same manner.

From The Man Who Lost Himself by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)