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Meanings of ebony in English
Tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork.
Synonyms
Examples for "sable"
Examples for "sable"
1
Streaks of reflected starlight blurred on the sable water below, growing closer.
2
No sable; no tracks of sable; no old signs, even, of sable.
3
And Etienne appeared, dressed in sable mourning, and bowed before the throne.
4
The flight of the squirrel and the unsuccessful sable were quickly forgotten.
5
The young sacristans, the sable nuns, vanished successively through the open door.
1
Her eyes were large and brown, the long eyebrows were coal black.
2
Except for a white patch on its breast it was coal black.
3
One set of horses was coal black, and the others a dark gray.
4
His hair was coal black, coarse, and without the slightest sprinkling of grey.
5
They had on blue uniforms and was on coal black horses.
1
A few are jet black; their skins are then preferred by hunters.
2
His coat was jet black, as was the skin of his face.
3
He was jet black with a flat face and long white whiskers.
4
Their eyes were jet black, and their hair was long and straight.
5
Her jet black hair formed a striking contrast to her lily complexion.
1
Sometimes pitch black is not what's directly outside a subway car's window.
2
When there is only a new crescent moon, it is pitch black.
3
The opening in the woods leading to the trail looked pitch black.
4
Apart from the glow from draped windows the world went pitch black.
5
At the top it was pitch black, and the rabbit had gone.
1
The sky glows with a blend of bloody red and soot black.
2
I repeated my instructions to them, and soot black hands drew dozens of shadowy weapons.
3
She ought to be almost soot black.
4
Frost formed on Mab's soot black lashes.
5
It faded slowly up, from her precise skin tone to soot black again, like an ancient photograph.
Usage of ebony in English
1
Their panels of ebony were decorated with bronze applications in the centre.
2
A powerful ebony claw reached up, out, and grabbed her left foot.
3
It was wainscoted with ebony, and the furniture was of the same.
4
The objects which interested us most were the ebony and kolim trees.
5
They didn't even know if the ebony nebula was made from matter.
6
The ebony-armored soldiers had not conquered most of their continent by luck.
7
Hathor, Nekhbet, and Tawaret held out their arms across the ebony throne.
8
Ferrara reached out his hand towards an ebony box; he was smiling.
9
An ebony wand lies at his feet; he will obey its touch.
10
EBONY: I have one more serious question; I know time is limited.
11
EBONY: New cases of police brutality appear in the news every day.
12
EBONY: The industry is filled with new singers-heretoday and gone tomorrow.
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EBONY: Last question: would you ever go back to reality TV again?
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EBONY: How would you rate the current state of the music industry?
15
EBONY: What is your perspective of the current state of public education?
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EBONY: How many people has the Detroit Water Project helped so far?
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Translations for ebony
Portuguese
Ebony through the time
Ebony across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Rare