jet black hair
This phrase comes from the stone "jet." Jet is a black stone used in jewelery, so "jet-black" refers to the color of the stone Middle English, from Anglo-Norman geet, from Latin gagts, from Greek, after Gagas, a town of Lycia.]adj.Made of or resembling a dense, black, highly polished coal.Black as coal; jet-black: jet hair. Above taken from Dictionary.com Viper1
The adjective meaning "as black as possible" comes from the geological substance "jet", which is formed by fossilization of decaying wood under pressure. In French this material was known as the noun "jailet", in English as the noun "jet".
The 'jet' in jet black refers to the mineral which is a black colour.
Their hair is a dark as can be. No tones of brown just dark black.
The exhaust nozzle on a jet engine that expande and retract depending on thrust
Jet black in general is more shiny than normal black.
Jet Black was born on August 26, 1938.
Jet Black was born on August 26, 1938.
Jet Black Games was created in 2006.
Jet is a stone similar to coal, but harder, and is basically black. One presumes then the origin of "jet black".
The cast of Jet Black - 2007 includes: Leighton Cardno as Jet Black Marissa Stott as Audrey