Bible-black
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Having the colour of a Bible bound in black. literary, not-comparable
"It is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and- rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea."
Example
More examples"It is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and- rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea."
Etymology
From the fact that personal Bibles were formerly often bound in a black cover.
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