Variant form meaning smoky or producing fumes; full of fumes or smoke (archaic/rare).
An alternative spelling or pronunciation of 'fumose,' derived from the same Latin 'fumosus,' showing variation in how the Latinate adjective was adopted into Middle English.
Medieval English writers sometimes used 'fumous' and 'fumose' interchangeably, reflecting the fluid state of English before dictionaries standardized word forms—they were still deciding how to English-ify Latin.
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