anthracite
noun/ˈænθɹəˌsaɪt/
Etymology Via Latin from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakîtis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “charcoal”). By surface analysis, anthrac- + -ite.
1
A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.
2
A dark grey color.
- 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!2013, Sylvia Leydecker, Designing Interior Architecture, page 32:
- Derived terms
- anthraciferous, anthracitic, anthracitism, meta-anthracite
- Coordinate terms
- semianthracite, bituminous coal, sub-bituminous coal, brown coal