EBON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ebon mean? 

• EBON (adjective)
  The adjective EBON has 1 sense:

1. of a very dark black

  Familiarity information: EBON used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EBON (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a very dark black

Synonyms:

ebon; ebony

Similar:

achromatic; neutral (having no hue)

 Context examples 

Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust, detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large pupil dilating under his ebon eyebrow.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I must see the light of the unsnuffed candle wane on my employment; the shadows darken on the wrought, antique tapestry round me, and grow black under the hangings of the vast old bed, and quiver strangely over the doors of a great cabinet opposite—whose front, divided into twelve panels, bore, in grim design, the heads of the twelve apostles, each enclosed in its separate panel as in a frame; while above them at the top rose an ebon crucifix and a dying Christ.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Traversing the long and matted gallery, I descended the slippery steps of oak; then I gained the hall: I halted there a minute; I looked at some pictures on the walls (one, I remember, represented a grim man in a cuirass, and one a lady with powdered hair and a pearl necklace), at a bronze lamp pendent from the ceiling, at a great clock whose case was of oak curiously carved, and ebon black with time and rubbing.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)