ebon
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of ebon
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English eban, ebyn “ebony,” Anglo-French eban(ne), Old French eban, ebaine, from Medieval Latin ebanus, for Latin (h)ebenus, from Greek ébenos, of Semitic origin, perhaps Egyptian hbny
Example Sentences
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Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust, detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large pupil dilating under his ebon eyebrow.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
She had to don her crown again and return to her ebon bench and the arms of her noble husband.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
He laid his hands upon my shoulders, our two heads encompassed by the mirror; my ebon frock-coat glistening anew in the candlelight.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
The ebon chairs had weirwood faces on their backs, the weirwood chairs faces of carved ebony.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Before them a pale lord in ebon finery sat dreaming in a tangled nest of roots, a woven weirwood throne that embraced his withered limbs as a mother does a child.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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