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Black

Black

Producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.

brunet having dark brown or black hair or eyes.

charcoal a dark greyish brown to black or dark purplish grey.

ebony the colour black; ebon.

egg·plant a blackish purple

jet(ty) a deep black; black as coal

nigrescence blackness or darkness, as of complexion

piceous glossy black.

pitch-black extremely dark; black as pitch.

raven black and shiny

sable a. the colour black, especially in heraldry. b. sables. Black garments worn in mourning

slate black a purplish black

sloe-black black

smutty black

spruce a greyish green to dark greenish black.