Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A black pigment prepared from vine-twigs, almond-shells, and peach-stones.
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Examples
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Look closer at the charcoal-black head, contrasting with those snow-white cheeks; the broad black stripe down the chest, bisecting two patches of custard-yellow; and that rich moss-green shade on the bird's back.
Birdwatch: great tit 2011
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As reported over on the SP3 blog at Hubble Images of Pluto, yesterday, NASA released some new images of Pluto taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, that reveal Pluto to be "a complex-looking and variegated world with white, dark-orange, and charcoal-black terrain."
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As reported over on the SP3 blog at Hubble Images of Pluto, yesterday, NASA released some new images of Pluto taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, that reveal Pluto to be "a complex-looking and variegated world with white, dark-orange, and charcoal-black terrain."
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Fragments of white bone are visible through charcoal-black flesh that extends all the way up to his wrists.
Gladiator Dan Clark 2009
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Fragments of white bone are visible through charcoal-black flesh that extends all the way up to his wrists.
Gladiator Dan Clark 2009
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Then she grabbed my shoulders, staring at me through the chunky glasses that magnified her charcoal-black eyes, making them huge and bright.
The God Box Alex Sanchez 2007
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Then she grabbed my shoulders, staring at me through the chunky glasses that magnified her charcoal-black eyes, making them huge and bright.
The God Box Alex Sanchez 2007
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A knotted texture of charcoal-black and gleaming silver hung like a ship out of fairyland high above us.
Orphans of Chaos 2005
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A group of young Marines in fatigues laugh and smile for the camera while pointing at a burned, charcoal-black body: "cooked Iraqi".
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Large, rotten fish were laid on handsome silver platters; cakes, burned charcoal-black, were heaped on salvers; there was a great maggoty haggis, a slab of cheese covered in furry green mold and, in pride of place, an enormous gray cake in the shape of a tombstone, with tar-like icing forming the words, Sir Nicholas de MimsyPorpington died 31st October, 1492
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Rowling, J. K. 1999
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