bone black
- a variation of boneblack.
Example Sentences
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Painted with only cobalt blue, permanent green, bone black and titanium white — along with some orange for the first and last of the series — they have an eerie effect.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2021
The Rams pieces were in a mix of royal blue, bone, black or white and featured Old English fonts, vivid graphics and a variety of team masks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2020
They both painted in contrasting dark and light hues, favoring palettes of darker, earthy pigments: bone black, ocher, umber, siennas and lead white.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2019
The railways transported thousands of tons of bones to the Michigan Carbon Works, in Detroit, which produced four thousand tons of bone ash and five thousand tons of bone black in one year.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2016
The juice, after being boiled and clarified, is filtered through vats, which, up to the rim, are filled with bone black and changed every six or eight hours, until the juice turns colour.
From Cuba Past and Present by Davey, Richard
