ebon
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ebon
- /ˈɛbən/
Where it comes from
From Old French eban (modern ébène), from Latin ebenus, from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos, “ebony tree”).
noun ebons · hebene
- Ebony; an ebony tree.
adjective more ebon · most ebon · hebene
- Made of ebony. “A stranger knight,” sayd he, “unknowne by name, / But knowne by fame, and by an Hebene speare […].”
- Black in colour. ...flowers stood beside, in an alabaster vase—exotics, that say, "our growth has been precious." A lute leant against the ebon stand; but the face of the lady wore the expression of deep and touching sorrow.
- Having dark skin; black. Woona had silently and swiftly backed away; and her ebon face, Ursula saw, had changed into leaden flabbiness with some horrible fear.
