death-black

The death-black, coal-black, pain-black tent that some women either choose, or are forced to choose, to wear is not intrinsic to Islam and there are orthodox Muslim scholars who condemn it.

Ottawa Sun 2010

Brightly clad and strangely garbed figures pranced and swooped around him — ragpickers with streaming comet tails of coloured cloth trailing behind them, tall chimney sweeps in death-black tails and sooty top hats doing jigs, exotic birds with long gold beaks stepping lightly, sheikhs of Araby with red turbans and pointed Persian slippers sliding along the dark ice, pirates with blue death masks pursuing a prancing unicorn, generals of Napoleon's army wearing white masks from some Greek Chorus filing by in solemn procession.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007