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black diamond

noun

  1. black diamonds, coal.


black diamond

noun

  1. another name for carbonado 2
  2. See coal
    usually plural a figurative expression for coal


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Word History and Origins

Origin of black diamond1

First recorded in 1910–15

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Example Sentences

His most expensive item was a $750,000 black diamond mink cape lined with 100,000 Austrian rhinestones.

He has traded in his white diamond earring on his left lobe for a more discreet black diamond.

I slather my body in Swedish Beauty Black Diamond cream with “Tingle Tanning Power.”

The tale of the Black Diamond had disturbed her by a slow, insidious process that was worse than sudden fright.

A gentleman asked his black diamond merchant the price of coals.

If Titas's mother had made a black diamond basket, maybe the snake would not have bitten her.

Two seams are worked at Franklin, and three at Black Diamond.

He had worked as a coal porter and hence received his nickname, the Black Diamond.

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