black opal

American

noun

Mineralogy.

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

black opal British

noun

any opal of a dark coloration, not necessarily black

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black opal

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

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

That was the initial impetus for the black opal.

From Slate ● Dec. 24, 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

"They felt," they said, "that there was something occultly evil about black opal."

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

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