a. Obs. [f. L. fūcōs-us: see prec. and -OUS.] Of the nature of fucus or ‘paint.’
1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., To the Reader, 4. It is Vice which hath need of false glosses, and hath such specious shewes and pretences put upon it, to make it seem Virtue, which fucous and false paint continues no longer then the present Faction.
