ebon

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Men wearing the circle whose diameter was etched in ruby steel enclosing a background of gleaming ebon--the emblem was a silver D over a sunburst of hammered gold The surface of Miracastle roiled with unfamiliar storms and tornados and hurricanes.

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  1. adjective Made of ebony.
  2. adjective Black in color.
  3. noun Ebony.

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  • She was the first to spring ashore, closely followed by Conan, and after them trooped the ebon-skinned pirates, white plumes waving in the morning wind, spears ready, eyes rolling dubiously at the surrounding jungle. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • He turned his attention to the figure in the ebon-black chair. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • Werewolf and vampire knew, and the ebon-bodied demons that prowl by night. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • In feline-ebon terms: I fit in somewhere between cutesy-wutesy kitten-pie (which I was, once), and sly, dahhhhk, unfuckwithable grown black cat (I am banking on the hope that one day both Knickerbocker and Laura Jane will grow to be sexy, seductive and mysterious adults). —  NOGOODFORME.COM
  • As they went the boy caught a glimpse of gleaming porcelain walls; ebon-hued stoves resplendent with nickel trimmings; a blue and white tiled floor; and smart little window hangings that matched it They don't cook here!" —  Walter and the Wireless
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English eban, ebony wood, from Old French, from Latin hebenus, ebenus, ebony tree, from Greek ebenos; see ebony.

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  1. Early modern English also eben, heben, ebene, etc. (cf. Dutch ebbenhout = German ebenholz (later Danish ibenholt = Swedish ebenholts), ‘ebonywood’), from Old French benus, ebene, French ebène = Provencal ebena = Spanish Portuguese Italian ebano, from Latin ebenus, corruptly hebenus, from Greek ἐβενος, ἐβένη, the ebony-tree, ebony, prob. of Phoenician origin; cf. Hebrew hobnīn, plural, ebony: so called in allusion to its hardness; from eben, a stone. Now usually ebony, ebon being chiefly poetical: see ebony.
 

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