"bible-black" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the fact that personal Bibles were formerly often bound in a black cover.",
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      },
      "expansion": "bible-black (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having the colour of a Bible bound in black."
      ],
      "id": "en-bible-black-en-adj-HBeUQ1l4",
      "links": [
        [
          "Bible",
          "Bible#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "black",
          "black#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) Having the colour of a Bible bound in black."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bible black"
        },
        {
          "word": "Bible-black"
        },
        {
          "word": "Bible black"
        },
        {
          "word": "Bible Black"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bible-black"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the fact that personal Bibles were formerly often bound in a black cover.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "bible-black (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English literary terms",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having the colour of a Bible bound in black."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Bible",
          "Bible#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "black",
          "black#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) Having the colour of a Bible bound in black."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bible black"
    },
    {
      "word": "Bible-black"
    },
    {
      "word": "Bible black"
    },
    {
      "word": "Bible Black"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bible-black"
}