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dusky

/ˈdʌs.ki/ adjective C2
  1. Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening). · I like it when it is dusky, just before the street lights come on.
  2. Having a shade of color that is rather dark. · The dusky rose was of a muted color, not clashing with any of the other colors.
  3. Dark-skinned. (dated, literary)
  4. Ashen; having a greyish skin coloration. · The patient was in shock and had a dusky skin tone.

Comparative duskier · Superlative duskiest

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Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster, North.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 25 · C1
The schoolhouse was set back from the road and behind it was a dusky fir wood and a brook where all the children put their bottles of milk in the morning to keep cool and sweet until dinner hour.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 107 · C1
She marched the shrinking ghost-seer down to the spring and ordered her to proceed straightway over the bridge and into the dusky retreats of wailing ladies and headless specters beyond.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 165 · C1
Holmes, and there is no man upon earth who can prevent me from going to the home of my own people, and you may take that to be my final answer.” His dark brows knitted and his face flushed to a dusky red as he spoke.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 43 · C1

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