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jet black

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jet black
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours)
a.  a deep black colour
b.  (as adjective) jet-black hair
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Noun1.jet black - a very dark blackjet black - a very dark black                    
coal black, ebony, pitch black, soot black, sable
black, blackness, inkiness - the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
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