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The canopy is held by Oxford students in sub-fusc, which is the academic wear of students of Oxford University.

Oxford Corpus Christi Procession 2009 2009

I hope that Sir Alan "I've got rich by selling sub fusc crap" Sugar sets her face on fire next week...

The Apprentice : This Time It's Personal juliette 2009

I agree with almost everything you say--how delightful it is to find such a close reading--though i do think Fanny has personality, it's just exceedingly sub=fusc.

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Fanny Price? Thoughts on Mansfield Park, Novel and Films Abigail Nussbaum 2007

Fox went to the telephone and established a sub-fusc conversation with the Yard.

Killer Dolphin Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1966

They have to be what the art-critics of the eighteenth century called "sub-fusc."

Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

The result of an excessive observation of the startling facts of life, a work appropriate to the violent energy of realistic prose, has been a general exaggeration of the darker tints, an insistence on that prominence of what was called the "sub-fusc" colours which art-critics of a century ago judged essential to sublimity in all art.

Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

The model is sub fusc immersive, the venue a secret known only to ticket-holders.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

You might notice how the shingle seems to tinge the atmosphere grey, how sub-fusc the people look.

The Guardian World News Laura Cumming 2010