sub fuscとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

sub-fusc (uncountable)

1. (英国用法, Oxford University) Formal clothing worn on special academic occasions.

発音

• enPR: sŭb-fŭsk', IPA^(key): /sʌbˈfʌsk/
• 韻: -ʌsk

形容詞

subfusc (comparative more subfusc, superlative most subfusc)

1. Having subdued colors.
   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, London: Fourth Estate, page 6:

     The courtiers tramping across the green eye the: [the Duke of] Suffolk with his big beard, his flashing eye, his big chest, and Master Secretary [Thomas Cromwell] subfusc, low-slung, square.