slate black
noun
a slightly purplish black.
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Examples from the Web for slate black
The slit of blood grew larger and larger in the slate-black clouds.
Flash-lights from the Seven Seas|William L. StidgerThey 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 Kelleam