as in black
having the color of soot or coal
the ebony loudspeakers on their chrome stands look very sleek and modern
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The dial is ebony-black sunburst, like the original.
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Carol Besler, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2024
The characters—ebony, sandalwood, ceiba, redwood and so on—quickly come to feel like old friends, their long life histories carefully told and the stakes of their uncertain futures in the Anthropocene clearly laid out.
—Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
Its scent profile of palo santo, cistus, and ebony wood is both meditative and transcendent.
—Megan Wahn, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
The neck is also mahogany, which is topped by an ebony fingerboard with 20 frets.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2024
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Carol Besler, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2024
The characters—ebony, sandalwood, ceiba, redwood and so on—quickly come to feel like old friends, their long life histories carefully told and the stakes of their uncertain futures in the Anthropocene clearly laid out.
—Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
Its scent profile of palo santo, cistus, and ebony wood is both meditative and transcendent.
—Megan Wahn, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
The neck is also mahogany, which is topped by an ebony fingerboard with 20 frets.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Ebony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ebony. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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