black as pitch and variants: intensely black or dark. Cf. pitch black adj. n. pitch dark adj. n. at compounds 2.
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| 释义 | the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as pitch (7) black as pitch?a1300 black as pitch and variants: intensely black or dark. Cf. pitch black adj. n. pitch dark adj. n. at compounds 2. pitchya1522 Pitch-black, intensely dark; (of darkness) intense, thick. pitch black1598 (a) adj.(usually hyphenated), of the black or blackish colour of pitch; intensely black or dark, esp. from lack of light; also figurative; (b) n. =… pitch-coloured1601 pitchy black1615 With adjectives of colour, as pitchy black, etc. Cf. pitch black adj. n. at pitch, n.1 compounds 2. piceous1726 Chiefly Entomology. Of a pitchy or brownish-black colour. picescent1847 Somewhat resembling pitch in colour; tending to brownish-black. |
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