Definitions
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- adjective having a dark color
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Examples
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They rose in one unbroken sweep from the water's edge, and were covered to the height of fourteen or fifteen hundred feet by the dusky-coloured forest.
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A little, dusky-coloured wren (Scytalopus Magellanicus) hops in a skulking manner among the entangled mass of the fallen and decaying trunks.
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A little, dusky-coloured wren (Scytalopus Magellanicus) hops in a skulking manner among the entangled mass of the fallen and decaying trunks.
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They rose in one unbroken sweep from the water's edge, and were covered to the height of fourteen or fifteen hundred feet by the dusky-coloured forest.
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On the coast,136 a small dusky-coloured bird (Opetiorhynchus Patagonicus) is very common.
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On the coast,136 a small dusky-coloured bird (Opetiorhynchus Patagonicus) is very common.
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Then we crossed rocky channels of clear rippling water, hedged by dwarf oaks and the dusky-coloured olive, underneath which flourished the dark-green fig-tree, with its strawberry-red marrowy fruit, bared by the bursting of its emerald-green rind.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832 Various
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The skipper stood on the bridge of his dusky-coloured vessel as she soused through the waters of the grim North Sea, his keen eyes ever on the alert fore and aft, and occasionally on the sister ship to his, coupled along with the "broom."
Some Naval Yarns Mordaunt Hall
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A little, dusky-coloured wren (Scytalopus Magellanicus) hops in a skulking manner among the entangled mass of the fallen and decaying trunks.
Chapter XI 1909
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On the coast4 a small dusky-coloured bird (Opetiorhynchus Patagonicus) is very common.
Chapter XIII 1909
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