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Definition of 'ebon'English
Alternative forms
* hebene (obsolete)
Noun
( en-noun)
(now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.
Adjective
( en-adj)
(poetic) Made of ebony.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
*:“A stranger knight,” sayd he, “unknowne by name, / But knowne by fame, and by an Hebene speare […].”
* 1745 , (Edward Young), Night-Thoughts , I:
- Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world.
(poetic) Black in colour.
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