coal black
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See also: coal-black and coalblack
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English colblak, colblake, cole-blak, cole-blake, coleblacke, colle blake, from the phrase blak as cole (“black as coal”).
Adjective
[edit]coal black (not comparable)
- Of an intensely black colour, like that of coal.
- 1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 110:
- Thor glared at him with hard coal-black eyes […]
- 2023, “Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This”, performed by Eels:
- Hung in the stocking / For my empty coal-black soul
Alternative forms
[edit]Antonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Of a black colour, like that of coal
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Noun
[edit]coal black (plural coal blacks)