fusain
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- Rhymes: -eɪn
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fusain (countable and uncountable, plural fusains)
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Borrowed from French fusain, from Vulgar Latin *fusago, from Latin fusus.
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fusain m (plural fusains)
- (art) A fusain, a charcoal sketch.
- (art, chiefly uncountable) Fusain, a type of charcoal used for drawing.
- ca. 1882, Vincent van Gogh, letter 287, in Brieven aan zijn broeder, part 2, publ. 1914, page 158.
- Ik heb deze teekening gemaakt met fusain en bergkrijt en drukinkt.
- I have made this drawing with fusain and mountain chalk and printer's ink.
- ca. 1882, Vincent van Gogh, letter 287, in Brieven aan zijn broeder, part 2, publ. 1914, page 158.
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fusain m (plural fusains)
Further reading edit
- “fusain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.