ebony: [15] Ebony is ultimately of Semitic origin. The Greeks took it from some Middle Eastern source, perhaps Egyptian hbnj, and turned it into ébenos. This made its way via Latin ebenus, later ebanus, and Old French eban into English. At first English simply used the French form (which as ebon survived into modern times as an archaism), but from the 16th century forms ending in -y began to supersede it.
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.
双语例句
1. He had rich, soft ebony hair.
他一头浓密、柔软的黑发。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The straight white part in her ebony hair seemed to divide the back of her head in half.
她乌黑的头发中有条笔直的白色分缝，仿佛将她的后脑勺一分为二。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Inside the ebony case was a magnificent silver casket, about twelve inches square by eight high.
在这个黑檀箱子里, 有一个十二寸见方,八寸高的精美绝伦的银匣子.
来自辞典例句
4. This is a cross between a white mosaic and an ebony.
这是一个跨白色花叶之间和乌木.
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5. A queen sat at her window and embroidered on an ebony frame.
