slate black
noun
a slightly purplish black.
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How to use slate black in a sentence
The slit of blood grew larger and larger in the slate-black clouds.
Flash-lights from the Seven Seas | William L. StidgerThe rocking floor of the sea, blue and gray and slate black by turn, spread to the east.
The "Genius" | Theodore DreiserThey bathed it in reddish light, and it loomed halfway out of the slate-black sea like something left alone in a ruined world.
Hunters Out of Space | Joseph Everidge KelleamWings and tail slate-black edged chiefly with bluish plumbeous gray, the coverts and tertiaries with olive-green.
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