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Ebony

noun

(pl. ebonies)

A very dark black. Synonyms: coal black, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black.

Hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys.

Tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork. Synonyms: Diospyros ebenum, ebony tree.

adjective

Of a very dark black. Synonym: ebon.

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"Ebony" Quotes from Famous Books

... naked feet resting on the flowers, was seated on a chair of ebony inlaid with gold; he had on his knees seven or eight young spaniels, who were licking his bands. Two servants were curling his hair, his mustachios, and beard, a third was covering his face with a kind of cream, which ...

— Chicot the Jester - [An abridged translation of "La dame de Monsoreau"] • Alexandre Dumas

... magnificent palaces than are to be found in all Damascus and Bagdad. From the roofs of these palaces there hung myriads of gems, liked diamonds, but larger than men; and in among the streets of towers and pyramids and temples, there flowed immense rivers as black as ebony, and swarming with fish that had ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... were belles from Louisiana, beauties from Mississippi, and enslavers from Virginia, accompanied by their mothers, their fathers, their troops of younger brothers and sisters, and their black servants. There were nurses and valets and maids of all shades from ebony to cream-colour, and of all varieties of picturesqueness. All day the immense piazzas were crowded with promenaders, sitters, talkers, fancy-workers, servants attired in rainbow hues and apparently ...

— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... My wives are beautiful, but their caresses annoy me as much as formerly they pleased me. I have long thought it would perhaps amuse me if I possessed a Christian wife who had eyes like violets and hair like gold, and a plump white body. A man tires very soon of ebony and amber.... Procure me such a wife and I will willingly release this Perion and all his ...

— Domnei • James Branch Cabell et al

... little light streamed up into the darkness of the ghost-walk. And into this dim radiance came a little old lady—her old-fashioned crimped hair an aureole of beautiful gray—leaning lightly on an ebony crutch, which in turn tapped the floor in accompaniment to ...

— The Girl from Sunset Ranch - Alone in a Great City • Amy Bell Marlowe

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