fuligin

soot, lampblack.

Then the Forestal took the Staff of Law, black as fuligin after her battle - -

a hypothetical colour darker than black.

“What is the tinct of your own guild?” “Fuligin,” I told him. “The color that is darker than black.”

2001, “Richard Horton” (username), “REVIEW: Vernor Vinge’s ‘Across Realtime’” “I'm wearing black only until I find something darker.” — “Fuligin, Mark. Fuligin.”

fuliginous; sooty or black.

of the colour fuligin.

The shadow hovers o’er us, old and long, Its power fuligin and vast.