Crossword clues for ebony
ebony
- Wood so dense it doesn't float
- U-turn from ivory
- Noted magazine since 1945
- Key stuff
- Jet alternative
- Ivory's partner, in song
- Ivory partner
- Ivory companion, in song
- Inky black
- Hard black wood
- Ethnic magazine since 1945
- Dense wood
- Dark-colored heartwood
- Dark black wood
- Dark black hardwood
- Black timber
- "--- and Ivory"
- "___ and Ivory" (1982 hit song)
- Wood used for piano keys
- Wood used for black piano keys, traditionally
- Wood that doesn't float
- Wood from Sri Lanka
- Wood for old piano keys
- Wood — Boyne (anag)
- What "ivory" lives with in perfect harmony
- Violin peg material
- Very dark wood
- Upscale magazine
- Tree with black wood
- Traditional piano key wood
- Traditional material of a piano's black keys
- Traditional black piano key wood
- Sharp or flat material
- Sade is on its cover this month
- Partner with ivory
- Ornamental wood
- Monthly magazine for the African-American market
- Metaphorical title word in a McCartney-Wonder hit
- Magazine with an African-American audience
- Magazine with a Power 100 list
- Magazine whose 60th anniversary issue had the cover line "Denzel, Halle & Jamie"
- Magazine that named Barack Obama its first-ever Person of the Year (2009)
- Magazine that has had Lena Horne and Michelle Obama on its cover
- Magazine that has celebrated "Black Cool"
- Magazine that featured "Black Panther" star Danai Gurira on its June 2018 cover
- Magazine since 1945
- Magazine named for a "fine black wood"
- Magazine founded in 1945
- Magazine focused on African-American culture
- Magazine first published in 1945
- Magazine celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2020
- Like flats on a piano
- Like 36 piano keys
- Jet sister
- Ivory's partner, on a keyboard
- Ivory's partner
- Ivory neighbor?
- Ivory counterpart, in a song
- Heavy wool
- Heavy hard wood, usually black
- Heavy black wood
- Harpsichord key material
- Hard, dark wood
- Hard, black wood
- Goes with "Ivory," to McCartney/Wonder
- Fine furniture wood
- Dense hardwood
- Dense black wood
- Dense dark wood
- Dark, durable wood
- Dark, dense wood
- Black key wood, traditionally
- African sculpture material
- "____ and Ivory"
- "___ and Ivory" (Wonder/McCartney duet)
- "___ and Ivory" (1982 song by Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney)
- "___ and Ivory" (#1 hit of 1982)
- Wood from India and Sri Lanka
- Black shade
- Piano key wood
- Like some piano keys
- Key material
- Key color
- Companion magazine to Jet
- Tropical wood
- Black, on a piano
- Carving medium
- ___ Awards (annual prizes for African-American achievement)
- Jet black
- Durable wood
- Hard wood used for black piano keys and in cabinetwork
- Chicago-based monthly since 1945
- Sister magazine of Jet
- Like 36 piano keys, traditionally
- Key shade
- Black key material
- Wood for black piano keys, once
- Black piano key material, traditionally
- Dark wood that sinks in water
- Jet-black
- Magazine to which Obama gave his first postelection interview in 2008
- Deep black
- Magazine with Barack and Michelle Obama on a 2007 cover with the caption "America's Next First Couple?"
- Black wood
- Tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
- A very dark black
- Piano-key material
- "___ and Ivory," 1982 song
- Wood for 38 keys
- Color of Poe's raven
- Wood for 36 keys
- Valuable wood
- "___ and Ivory," 1982 hit song
- Chicago-based magazine with one-million-plus circulation
- Wood for a clarinet
- Lustrous black
- Material for 36 keys
- Wood for 36 piano keys
- Color, also called teak
- Keyboard wood
- "___ and Ivory," McCartney-Wonder hit
- Wood often used for chessmen
- Kind of tree
- Very dark black
- English lad gathers new wood
- Wood, European, thin
- Wood - Boyne
- Blackish wood
- Black English footballer at Stoke City
- Hard dark-coloured wood
- Hard dark wood
- Furniture wood
- Hardwood tree
- Cabinet wood
- Sri Lankan export
- Piano key material
- Fine wood
- Black hardwood
- Key wood
- Ivory's counterpart
- Piano-key wood
- Durable dark wood
- Popular magazine
- Deep, lustrous black
- Black-key material
- Wood that sinks in water
- Key component
- Jet rival
- Heavy wood
- Fine black wood
- Black board
- "___ and Ivory" (McCartney/Wonder song)
- ''___ and Ivory''
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ebony \Eb"on*y\, a. Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.
This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling.
--Poe.
Ebony \Eb"on*y\, n.; pl. Ebonies. [F. ['e]b[`e]ne, L. ebenus, fr. Gr. ?; prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. hobn[=i]m, pl. Cf. Ebon.] A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.
Note: The finest black ebony is the heartwood of Diospyros reticulata, of the Mauritius. Other species of the same genus ( D. Ebenum, Melanoxylon, etc.), furnish the ebony of the East Indies and Ceylon. The West Indian green ebony is from a leguminous tree ( Brya Ebenus), and from the Exc[ae]caria glandulosa.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dark, hard wood favored for carving, musical instruments, etc., 1590s, perhaps an extended form of Middle English ebon, or from hebenyf (late 14c.), perhaps a Middle English misreading of Latin hebeninus "of ebony," from Greek ebeninos, from ebenos "ebony," probably from Egyptian hbnj or another Semitic source. Figurative use to suggest intense blackness is from 1620s. As an adjective, "of ebony, made of ebony," from 1590s; in reference to skin color of Africans, by 1813. French ébène, Old High German ebenus (German Ebenholz) are from Latin ebenus.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Made of ebony wood. 2 A deep, dark black color. 3 Dark-skinned; black; ''especially'' in reference to African-Americans n. 1 A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus ''Diospyros''. 2 A tree that yields such wood. 3 A deep, dark black colour. 4 (context slang English) A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument
WordNet
adj. very dark black [syn: ebon]
n. a very dark black [syn: coal black, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black]
hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork [syn: Diospyros ebenum]
Wikipedia
Ebony is a dense black hardwood, most commonly yielded by several different species in the genus Diospyros. Ebony is dense enough to sink in water. It is finely-textured and has a very smooth finish when polished, making it valuable as an ornamental wood. The word ebony derives from the Ancient Egyptian hbny, via the Ancient Greek (ébenos), by way of Latin and Middle English.
Ebony is a monthly magazine for the African-American market. It was founded by John H. Johnson and has published continuously since the autumn of 1945. A digest-sized sister magazine, Jet, was founded by the Johnson Publishing Company. After 71 years, in 2016, Johnson sold the publications to private equity firm Clear View Group. The new publisher will be known as Ebony Media Corporation.
Ebony refers firstly to a dense black wood, and hence also to:
Ebony was a New Zealand band, best known for their hit "Big Norm".
Ebony is the fifth unreleased studio album by American rapper Yo-Yo. The album was supposed to have been released on September 29, 1998; but was then shelved. The album was shelved because the guest appearances were not properly contracted to work with an artist on East West Records. Promotional copies were printed before the album was shelved.
Usage examples of "ebony".
Now, as he stood before her, naked torso gleaming in the candlelight, muscles rippling, eyes afire with their ebony fury, she was bleakly sorry.
And at length emerges the little aigrette of silver flowers, the ebony coiffure, the gray silk robe and mauve sash of Mademoiselle Jasmin, my fiancee!
Griff Forteyn was an arresting devil with his shining dark eyes and ebony hair, which in defiance of alamodality, he never wore powdered.
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Conan cryptically, slit-eyed ebony giants, the torch striking highlights from their glossy skin.
I soon found myself arrayed in lapis lazuli jazerant, cothurni, and a stephane, the whole set off by an ebony baculus and a voluminous damassin cape embroidered with rotting pearls.
Her skin was as white as snow, and her ebony tresses covered the whole of her body, save in a few places where the dazzling whiteness of her skin shone through.
In his proud eyes Ebony was the tallest stallion in all the lands high, and when Emel rode him it was from this height that he looked down upon the world.
They crossed a broad gravel riverbed dry and white in the sun and they climbed into a meadow where the grass was tall as the tires and passed under the truck with a seething sound and they entered a grove of ebony trees and drove out a nesting pair of hawks and pulled up in the yard of an abandoned estancia, a quadrangle of mud buildings and the remains of some sheep-pens.
He said that the man they called the charro had suffered from a failure of nerve out there among the ebony trees beyond the ruins of the estancia and this a man whose brother was dead at the hand of the assassin Blevins and this a man who had paid money that certain arrangements be made which the captain had been at some pains himself to make.
The key turned, and I flung back the lid, and uttered an exclamation, and no wonder, for inside the ebony case was a magnificent silver casket, about twelve inches square by eight high.
The thing had gangling arms and hands with ebony talons, a skeletal torso with naked female breasts, coarse black hair that framed smoldering scarlet eyes.
The ebony and silver furniture, the dainty carpet of La Savonniere, the silks of Tours, the tapestries of the Gobelins, the gold-work and the delicate chinaware of Sevres--the best of all that France could produce was centred between these four walls.
Mardi Gras - the French Quarter - a masked girl - an ebony box - all formed a linking chain in a brain that was coming back from bewilderment.
She had also splendid teeth, glorious hair as black as jet, and arched eyebrows like ebony.