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Meanings of soot black in English

Portuguese
ébano
Spanish
carbón

A very dark black.

        ébano
        Synonyms
        Examples for "ebony"
        Examples for "ebony"
        1
        EBONY: I have one more serious question; I know time is limited.
        Ebony
        2
        EBONY: New cases of police brutality appear in the news every day.
        Ebony
        3
        EBONY: The industry is filled with new singers-heretoday and gone tomorrow.
        Ebony
        4
        EBONY: Last question: would you ever go back to reality TV again?
        Ebony
        5
        EBONY: How would you rate the current state of the music industry?
        Ebony
        1
        Streaks of reflected starlight blurred on the sable water below, growing closer.
        The Reality Dysfunction
        2
        No sable; no tracks of sable; no old signs, even, of sable.
        African Camp Fires
        3
        And Etienne appeared, dressed in sable mourning, and bowed before the throne.
        The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendun...
        4
        The flight of the squirrel and the unsuccessful sable were quickly forgotten.
        The Plains of Passage
        5
        The young sacristans, the sable nuns, vanished successively through the open door.
        The Talisman
        1
        Her eyes were large and brown, the long eyebrows were coal black.
        The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
        2
        Except for a white patch on its breast it was coal black.
        Three John Silence Stories
        3
        One set of horses was coal black, and the others a dark gray.
        His Hour
        4
        His hair was coal black, coarse, and without the slightest sprinkling of grey.
        The Vanished Messenger
        5
        They had on blue uniforms and was on coal black horses.
        Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
        1
        A few are jet black; their skins are then preferred by hunters.
        After London; Or, Wild England
        2
        His coat was jet black, as was the skin of his face.
        Mark Seaworth
        3
        He was jet black with a flat face and long white whiskers.
        Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird
        4
        Their eyes were jet black, and their hair was long and straight.
        Highroads of Geography / Introductory Book: Round the World with...
        5
        Her jet black hair formed a striking contrast to her lily complexion.
        Paris as It Was and as It Is / A Sketch Of The French Capital, I...
        1
        Sometimes pitch black is not what's directly outside a subway car's window.
        Wired
        2
        When there is only a new crescent moon, it is pitch black.
        The Guardian
        3
        The opening in the woods leading to the trail looked pitch black.
        The devil's closet
        4
        Apart from the glow from draped windows the world went pitch black.
        Nothing to lose
        5
        At the top it was pitch black, and the rabbit had gone.
        Complete Books of Blood
        Usage of soot black in English
        1
        The sky glows with a blend of bloody red and soot black.
        Angelfall
        2
        I repeated my instructions to them, and soot black hands drew dozens of shadowy weapons.
        Cold Days
        3
        She ought to be almost soot black.
        Surface detail
        4
        Frost formed on Mab's soot black lashes.
        Cold Days
        5
        It faded slowly up, from her precise skin tone to soot black again, like an ancient photograph.
        Surface detail
        6
        Soot black and grey, with a hint of red brick, they are emphatically Lowry's flowers: hard as clinker and one with the scene.
        The Guardian
        Translations for soot black
        Portuguese
        ébano