"Subfusc" (sub-FUSK) – from the Latin for "brownish" – means dark or drab.
Example (as used by Emily Gordon in Newsday): "The tea-cosy, property of one Edmund Gravel… is haunted by a six-legged emcee for various ’subfusc but transparent’ ghosts."
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