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black opal

American  

noun

Mineralogy.
  1. a dark variety of opal having the characteristic opaline play of color.


black opal British  

noun

  1. any opal of a dark coloration, not necessarily black

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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She has rings for him to don at his opening, including a black opal that sparkles in the sun.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 17, 2022

Howard Ratner did not smuggle an Ethiopian black opal inside a fish and then make a six-way parlay bet on the Celtics to be shrugged off this way.

From Slate Dec. 27, 2019

Plenty of my friends were as spellbound by the movie’s cacophonous sound design and jagged, glitzy energy as Kevin Garnett is by that dubiously sourced hunk of black opal.

From Slate Dec. 27, 2019

KG, as they call him in the film, becomes obsessed with this black opal that's a centerpiece of the story.

From Salon Dec. 18, 2019

For both, black opal had a subtle, inexplicable fascination.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

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