| 单词 | pitchy black |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspitchy black b. With adjectives of colour, as pitchy black, etc. Cf. pitch black adj. and n. at pitch n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as pitch black as pitch?a1300 pitchya1522 pitch black1598 pitch-coloured1601 pitchy black1615 piceous1726 picescent1847 1615 P. Gordon First Pt. Famous Hist. Bruce sig. Vv Thrie scoir he brings in armour pitchie blak. 1735 T. Dallowe tr. H. Boerhaave Elements Chem. II. ii. 247 By this means then, you have an alcaline oily Spirit..; a yellow Oil; and a pitchy black one. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 779 The chrysalis..is pitchy-brown..inclosed in a white woolly cocoon. 1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 120 A deep, pitchy-black pool surrounded with rocks. 1909 F. V. Theobald Insect & Other Allied Pests 368 The beetle is pitchy-brown to black in colour. 1984 R. Rendell Killing Doll (1985) 127 It was so dark, pitchy black, that at first Dolly thought they would be able to see nothing. < as lemmas |
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