drop black
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The young bucks drop black bean sauce or sriracha on and fold it like a taco.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2019
A towering cliff stood behind them, a sheer drop, black and faceless.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
The pigments most used for oil stains are: burnt and raw umber, burnt and raw sienna, Vandyke brown, drop black, and medium chrome yellow.
From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William
For optical purposes the best plan is to use a paint made up of "drop" black, ground very fine with a little shellac varnish, and diluted for use with alcohol.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
To produce such a stain take 1 lb. of drop black in oil and 1/2 oz, of rose pink in oil, adding a gill of best japan drier, thinning with three half-pints of turpentine.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
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