ebonizev.
/ˈɛbənʌɪz/ 1. transitive. To make (furniture, etc.) look like ebony.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > make black [verb (transitive)]
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1880 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. Since black and gold is so fashionable in furniture, he might be agreeably ebonised and gilded.
2. intransitive. To take an ebony colour.
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1892 E. Rowe Chip-carving (1895) p. xi Kawrie Pine ebonizes very well, but requires some strength to carve.
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ˈebonized adj.
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1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen III. 313 Ebonised chairs.
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