Ebon
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɛbən/
Alternative forms
- hebene obsolete
Origin
From Old French eban (modern ébène), from Latin ebenus, from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ebenos, "ebony tree").
Adjective
ebon
- (poetic) Made of ebony.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:“A stranger knight,†sayd he, “unknowne by name,
But knowne by fame, and by an Hebene speare ….†- 1745, Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, I:Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. - (poetic) Black in colour.