Meaning & use
Ebon
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Deep black in color, especially as used in poetic or literary description.
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The ebon sky was pierced only by a scattering of stars.
Her ebon hair fell in waves past her shoulders.
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A poetic shortening of "ebony," the dense black wood; the word appears frequently in classic poetry, most famously in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."
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