dusky

1. (dated, literary) Dark-skinned.Examples: "You have your lovers - dusky beaus / Not made of the poetic stuff / That sports an Apollonian nose, / And wears a sleek Byronic cuff."; "I think that he was a little horrified at my cool way of taking the honour, but the fact was that I did not feel overwhelmed with gratitude at the prospect of seeing some savage, dusky queen, however absolute and mysterious she might be, more especially as my mind was full of dear Leo, for whose life I began to have great fears."; "They "stuck on" fairly well, but sometimes these dusky jockeys fell off during the race."Synonyms: black, inky, sable, sooty, swarthydatedliterary