| Word | lugubrious |
|---|---|
| Definition | adj. Looking or sounding sad and dismal; excessively mournful. |
| Sentence | The transept of the Jesuit Church in Gardiner Street was almost full....The light of the lamps of the church fell upon an assembly of black clothes and white collars, relieved here and there by tweeds, on dark mottled pillars of green marble and on lugubrious canvases. |
| Source | Dubliners, "Grace", p. 195 |
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