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Ebony vs Swarthy - What's the difference?

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Ebony is a related term of swarthy.


As a proper noun ebony

is .

As an adjective swarthy is

tawny, dusky, dark.

ebony

English

(wikipedia ebony)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A hard, heavy, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros .
  • A tree that yields such wood.
  • A deep, dark black colour.
  • (slang) A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument
  • Derived terms

    * Ceylon ebony * India ebony * Jamaican ebony * West Indian ebony

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of ebony wood.
  • A deep, dark black colour.
  • ebony colour:   
  • Dark-skinned; black; especially in reference to African-Americans
  • * 1864 , George Adams Fisher, The Yankee conscript: or, Eighteen months in Dixie
  • He called the ebony mistress of the establishment to him, and speaking to her kindly and winningly, as any dutiful husband should, told her to make the change, which she did.
  • * 1931 , Catherine MacFarlane Carswell, The life of Robert Burns
  • No attempt was made in her new home to discontinue or even to conceal the presence of an ebony mistress and a thriving family of little mulattoes...
  • * 2004', "Alyssa", '''''Ebony Girls Need Attention'' (on newsgroup ''alt.sex.escorts )
  • Want to watch my gorgeous ebony friend, Almond Joy, naked and online 24/7? She recently ended a long-term relationship and is now fully enjoying being a 25 year-old single gal in Beverly Hills.

    See also

    * calamander * cocuswood * tendu *

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    swarthy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • tawny, dusky, dark
  • dark-skinned
  • * Addison
  • Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains.
  • (nonstandard) evil, malicious
  • (nonstandard) weathered, rough