See bible-black on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From the fact that personal Bibles were formerly often bound in a black cover.",
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"ref": "1954, Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood […] , New York: New Directions:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1985, Marillion (lyrics and music), “Bitter Suite”, in Misplaced Childhood:",
"text": "The sky was Bible black in Lyon / When I met the Magdalene / She was paralysed in a streetlight / She refused to give her name",
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"ref": "2023 May 28, Rick Jordan, “I went to the only place on Earth where every nation gets along”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-30:",
"text": "A little further along the coast, watched by lines of Bible-black cormorants, a monument was unveiled in 2022 commemorating Chile's role in returning Shackleton and his men to Punta Arenas: next to a section of hull from the good ship Yelcho is a statue of its captain, Luis Pardo, pointing southwards out to sea.",
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"ref": "a. 2024, “Bible Black”, in Farrow & Ball, archived from the original on 2024-04-28:",
"text": "Once used to describe the intense black of a starless night in Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, Bible Black is an inky violet shade that adds richness and depth to any feature, inside or out.",
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"Having the colour of a Bible bound in black."
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"(literary) Having the colour of a Bible bound in black."
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"ref": "1954, Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood […] , New York: New Directions:",
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"ref": "1985, Marillion (lyrics and music), “Bitter Suite”, in Misplaced Childhood:",
"text": "The sky was Bible black in Lyon / When I met the Magdalene / She was paralysed in a streetlight / She refused to give her name",
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"ref": "2023 May 28, Rick Jordan, “I went to the only place on Earth where every nation gets along”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-30:",
"text": "A little further along the coast, watched by lines of Bible-black cormorants, a monument was unveiled in 2022 commemorating Chile's role in returning Shackleton and his men to Punta Arenas: next to a section of hull from the good ship Yelcho is a statue of its captain, Luis Pardo, pointing southwards out to sea.",
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