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COAL BLACK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coal black mean?
• COAL BLACK (noun)
The noun COAL BLACK has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: COAL BLACK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A very dark black
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
coal black; ebony; jet black; pitch black; sable; soot black
Hypernyms ("coal black" is a kind of...):
black; blackness; inkiness (the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white))
Context examples
The spot, as he described it, was about the compass of a silver threepence, but in the course of time grew larger, and changed its colour; for at twelve years old it became green, so continued till five and twenty, then turned to a deep blue: at five and forty it grew coal black, and as large as an English shilling; but never admitted any further alteration.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Holmes, with a laugh, passed his hand behind the child’s ear, a mask peeled off from her countenance, and there was a little coal black negress, with all her white teeth flashing in amusement at our amazed faces.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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