slate black

noun

1. a slightly purplish black.

Example Sentences

The tree that grew out of the gutter on the spire had fallen in the last storm, taking a handful of the slate-black roof tiles with it.

From Literature

He started out doing shadowy abstract paintings, influenced by his teacher, Edward Corbett, a wonderful, overlooked artist who has a slate-black picture here.

From New York Times

They bathed it in reddish light, and it loomed halfway out of the slate-black sea like something left alone in a ruined world.

From Project Gutenberg

Messrs. A. Smith & Son have shown us copies that are slate-black of the darkest kind.”

From Project Gutenberg

They presently spied him and went galloping off up the gulch, and Casey followed until he spied a thin bluish ribbon of smoke wavering up toward the slate-black clouds.

From Project Gutenberg