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jet-black

[ jet-blak ]

adjective

  1. deep-black:

    jet-black hair.



jet black

noun

    1. a deep black colour
    2. ( as adjective )

      jet-black hair

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of jet-black1

First recorded in 1475–85
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She'd wear outrageous costumes or jet-black sunglasses, deliberately putting a barrier between her and the journalist.

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You see tiny sprouts inching out of fallen trunks, head-high green shoots overshadowing charred remnants and towering old trees whose branches are greening again, despite jet-black charred bark below.

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Sinwar - who has striking snow-white hair and jet-black eyebrows - disappeared at the start of the war sparked by the attack, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

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It’s the petroleum-derived element that gives wet suits their strength and jet-black color.

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She was quite beautiful, as well: The woman’s jet-black hair had only a few streaks of white playing through it, and her face seemed to have been barely touched by age.

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