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Ebony entered the language in the 1590s, from the word hebenyf (late 14c.). It's a Middle English misreading of the Latin word hebenius "of ebony," from Gk. ebenios, from ebenos "ebony," probably from Egyptian hbnj or another Semitic source.

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