Ebonyname

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  A female given name from English.

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  derogatoryA stereotypical African-American woman.

ebonynoun/ˈɛb.ən.i/

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  A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.

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  A tree that yields such wood.

  • “You live up the road past the ebony tree, right?” he asked, looking past me.
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  A deep, dark black colour.

  • Near-synonyms: onyx, raven
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  Dark skin colour.

  • At dawn the hunters were off. There were fifty sleek, black warriors, and in their midst, lithe and active as a young forest god, strode Tarzan of the Apes, his brown skin contrasting oddly with the ebony of his companions. Except for color he was one of them.
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  A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument (as opposed to ivory).

  • Ebony and ivory / Live together in perfect harmony / Side by side on my piano keyboard / Oh lord, why don't we?
  • Tony had gone into the storage room and gotten two more standing lamps, one placed near the ebonies and ivories.

ebonyadj/ˈɛb.ən.i/

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  Made of ebony wood.

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  A deep, dark black colour.

  • Near-synonyms: onyx, raven
  • Seats are trimmed in a grey and blue moquette and tables are finished with grey Vyanide tops, gilt edging and ebony legs.
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  Dark-skinned; black; especially in reference to African-Americans.

  • He called the ebony mistress of the establishment to him, and speaking to her kindly and winningly, as any dutiful husband should, told her to make the change, which she did.
  • No attempt was made in her new home to discontinue or even to conceal the presence of an ebony mistress and a thriving family of little mulattoes...