anthracite
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakîtis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “charcoal”). By surface analysis, anthrac- + -ite.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]anthracite (countable and uncountable, plural anthracites)
- A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.
- Synonym: hard coal
- A dark grey colour.
- anthracite:
- 2013, Sylvia Leydecker, Designing Interior Architecture, page 32:
- In the past, when the author was studying, architects only employed a very restricted palette of colours: the white of modernism, black, a “friendly” shade of anthracite and light grey!
Coordinate terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]type of coal
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dark gray color
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Anagrams
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Noun
[edit]anthracite m (plural anthracites)
- anthracite (all senses)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “anthracite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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