ebonize

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First, however, it will have to be blacked or ebonised.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu

They had this melancholy retreat to themselves, and seated on the divan enclosing the central steam-radiator, they were staring silently at the glass cabinets mounted in ebonised wood which contained the recovered fragments of Ilium.

From The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith

The little screens are made of oak, mahogany, and ebonised wood.

From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. by Peters, Charles

They were within a foot of each other in the ebonised cubicle.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

And Edwin interjected vague replies, pulling the chair out of the little ebonised cubicle so that they could both sit down.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold