n. Clothing acceptable, by regulation at certain universities, for an examination or official event.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Same as subfuscous.
adj. Drab; dingy; dull.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
See subfusk.
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adj. devoid of brightness or appeal
Word Usage
"I believe they're all around us, but it's increasingly hard "to distinguish their gleam," as an English critic, Edward Garnett, was already lamenting in 1922, "amid the subfusc, swollen cataract of stories made to order.""