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ebony::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | coal black, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black |
| Type of | inkiness, black, blackness |
| Derivation | ebonize |
ebony::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | diospyros ebenum, ebony tree |
| Type of | tree |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ebon |
ebony::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | wood |
Examples of ebony
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Christopher Dresser's tea service, electroplated nickel silver with ebony, 1880.
From the sfgate.com
He also uses willow occasionally, and ebony, rosewood and boxwood for fittings.
From the kentucky.com
The African merchants, King's, stored palm oil, ebony and elephant tusks in them.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Emotions crossed his smooth ebony features with the airy ease of weather patterns.
From the theatlantic.com
It also looks like it may have some ebony inlay around the feet of each piece.
From the thestate.com
A sleek, ebony-colored bookcase holds a Korean color TV and matching video system.
From the time.com
Paintings should be framed, even if it is just a simple ebony-walnut floating edge.
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Panton's Barboy is an ingenious ebony mobile cylinder of pivoting components.
From the dailyherald.com
The XJL boasted ebony wood with dark lines in the grain and light leather and trim.
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- Ebon: of a very dark black
- Hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
- Ebony is a general name for very dense black wood. In the strictest sense it is yielded by several species in the genus Diospyros, but other heavy, black (or dark colored) woods (from completely unrelated trees) are sometimes also called ebony. ...
- The Ebony camera company was founded by Japanese photographer Hiromi Sakanashi in 1981. The Sakanashi family has been in the photographic business since 1871, when Hiromi Sakanashi's great grandfather founded one of Japan's first photographic equipment stores in the town of Kumamoto, Kyu016Bshu016B.
- Ebony, a monthly magazine for the African American market, was founded by John H. Johnson and has published continuously since the Autumn of 1945. A digest-sized sister magazine, Jet, is also published by Johnson Publishing.
- A female given name from the noun ebony, of mostly African-American usage since the mid-twentieth century
- A hard, heavy, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros; A tree that yields such wood; A deep, dark black colour; Made of ebony wood; A deep, dark black colour; Dark-skinned; black
- If you dream of ebony furniture or other articles of ebony, you will have many distressing disputes and quarrels in your home.
- (English) A tropical hardwood, usually black, prized for its strength and color.
