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bible-black

adj

Etymology

From the fact that personal Bibles were formerly often bound in a black cover.

Definitions

  1. Having the colour of a Bible bound in black.

    • It is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and- rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.
    • The sky was Bible black in Lyon / When I met the Magdalene / She was paralysed in a streetlight / She refused to give her name

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA