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a word coined by Gene Wolfe in the four-book series The Book of the New Sun to designate a color that is blacker than black (N.B. though fuligin is nowhere to be found in the O.E.D., it cannot but be derived from such words as fuliginous - adjective - 1.

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  • Furthermore, the hue fuligin, which is darker than black, admirably erases all folds, bunchings, and gatherings so far as the eye is concerned, showing only a...
  • "The oubliette is a dirty place, and fuligin doesn't show bloodstains."
  • We had penetrated the fabric of time, and the fuligin vortex marked the end of the universe.
  • I was soaked to soddenness, and no longer cared whether my mantle covered my fuligin torturer's cloak.
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