coal black

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of an intensely black colour, like that of coal.
noun
  1. A black colour, like that of coal; charcoal.

Word forms

coal black coal blacks

Etymology

From Middle English colblak, colblake, cole-blak, cole-blake, coleblacke, colle blake, from the phrase blak as cole (“black as coal”).

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