Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
black .
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Examples
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Far, far below, iron-black water noiselessly lipped toothlike boulders.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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Far, far below, iron-black water noiselessly lipped toothlike boulders.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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She was pale and thin, with coarse, iron-black hair.
Claire de Lune Christine Johnson 2010
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She was pale and thin, with coarse, iron-black hair.
Claire de Lune Christine Johnson 2010
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Far, far below, iron-black water noiselessly lipped toothlike boulders.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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Far, far below, iron-black water noiselessly lipped toothlike boulders.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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On one side, above the path, was a steep embankment, covered with dense green undergrowth and boughs of hawthorn and an intense tangle of yew, knitted together like iron-black lace in the half-light.
Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007
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The rows of the giant maguey stretched bristling their iron-black barbs in the gloom.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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They conveyed her to the auction-room, where she stood trembling among a group of slaves of all ages and all colors, from iron-black to the lightest brown.
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The road began to be lined with thickets of shrubs here: choke cherry bushes, with some ripe, dried-up black berries left on the branches, with iron-black bark, and with wiry stems, in the background; in front of them, closer to the driveway, hawthorn, rich with red fruit; rosebushes with scarlet leaves reaching down to nearly underfoot.
Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove
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