Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bible-black

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English

Syllables: bible-black
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having the colour of a Bible bound in black.

Literary

Example Sentences

"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."
"The sky was Bible black in Lyon / When I met the Magdalene / She was paralysed in a streetlight / She refused to give her name"
"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."
"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."

Etymology

From the fact that personal Bibles were formerly often bound in a black cover.

Usage

Literary

Inflected Forms

bible black (alternative)

Questions

What does bible-black mean?: Having the colour of a Bible bound in black.
Where does bible-black come from?: From the fact that personal Bibles were formerly often bound in a black cover.

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