单词 | ebony complexion |
释义 | > as lemmasebony complexion a. As the type of intense blackness. son of ebony: humorously = a black man. Also attributive, as in ebony complexion, ebony skin, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > black thing or matter > [noun] > typical black thing ebony1823 1823 C. Mathews Let. 23 Feb. in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1839) III. 388 A Hottentot Adonis appeared, with..an effluvia arising from his ebony skin. 1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xxvii. 308 The different tribes of mankind, from the ebony skin of the torrid zone to, etc. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. vi. 70 Black Sam..was..about three shades blacker than any other son of ebony on the place. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 39 A race of savages..the ebony negroes of the Soudan. < as lemmas |
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