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coal-black en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of coal black.
    alt of coal black
    • I arrived at the fag end of winter, in the time of the veritable Bulgakovian black snow — fur-grey, at least, in the parks and under the Kremlin walls; great coal-black lumps in the gutters of the big prospekty. 1987 April 20, W[illiam] L[eslie] Webb, “[Mikhail] Gorbachev spring without retreat”, in The Guardian, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 1: