dunness

Definitions

The quality of being dun in colour.

uncountable

Examples

“And yet thou thinkest, sad child, whose years have⟳ scarce passed into woman, that the sun, once set⟳, never comes back to life! But even while we speak⟳, thy morning draws near, and the dunness of cloud takes the hues of the rose!”

“[…] up a hard and stony mountain path to Styhead Pass⟳, whence the contrast between the dunness of the bare mountains and the fertility of green valleys was most striking […]”

“He saw⟳ the stallion of Spartacus white amidst the general dunness, considered that for a moment, passed beyond the moving blurs of nocolour that made up the Gauls and Germans: and met the horizon.”

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