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"I'm a fairly visual thinker. In doing science, I think in terms of pictures of things happening, and then do the mathematics."
- Gregory Benford
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| Fuligin | ||
| A material the color of which is blacker than black. |
Fuligin-colored materials can be used in cloaks, breeches and pennons.
| I put on the cloak... 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 featureless dark. |
| From Shadow & Claw,
by Gene Wolfe. Published by Not known in 1980 Additional resources -
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Fuligin is the color of the Torturer's guild. The word is probably derived from fuliginous, an archaic word meaning sooty.
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