S vs Fuliginous - What's the difference?
s | fuliginous |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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Pertaining to or resembling soot; sooty, dusky.
* 1843 , '', book 4, chapter XV, ''Morrison again :
* 1934 , Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer :
* 1972 , John Gardner, Grendel , London 1972, p. 10:
* 1997 , Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon :
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adjective fuliginous is
pertaining to or resembling soot; sooty, dusky.s
Translingual
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Symbol
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(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}fuliginous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- To that dingy fuliginous Operative, emerging from his soot-mill, what is the first duty I will prescribe, and offer help towards? That he clean the skin of him.
- On the beach, masts and chimneys interlaced, and like a fuliginous shadow the figure of Albertine gliding through the surf, fusing into the mysterious quick and prism of a protoplasmic realm, uniting her shadw to the dream and harbinger of death.
- I toy with shouting some tidbit more – some terrifying, unthinkable threat, some blackly fuliginous riddling hex – but my heart's not in it.
- With its own fuliginous Weather, at once public and private, created of smoke billowing from Pipes, Hearths, and Stoves, the Room would provide an extraordinary sight, were any able to see