My New Favorite Word

Word of the Day for Wednesday November 2, 2005
subfusc\sub-FUHSK\, adjective:Dark or dull in color; drab, dusky.
The tea-cosy, property of one Edmund Gravel -- "known as the Recluse of Lower Spigot to everybody there and elsewhere," as the book's first page informs us -- is haunted by a six-legged emcee for various "subfusc but transparent" ghosts. --Emily Gordon, "The Doubtful Host," Newsday, November 8, 1998
Her inscrutable figure -- imposing in designer subfusc, slightly donnish, reminiscent of Vita Sackville-West, to whom she was distantly related -- baffled and intrigued some. --Yvonne Whiteman, "Obituary: Frances Lincoln," Independent, March 6, 2001