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Anthracite

//ˈænθɹəˌsaɪt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat wordnet
  3. 3
    A dark grey color. countable, uncountable

    "In the past, when the author was studying, architects only employed a very restricted palette of colours: the white of modernism, black, a “friendly” shade of anthracite and light grey!"

Etymology

Via Latin from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakîtis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “charcoal”). By surface analysis, anthrac- + -ite.

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