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dark earth

Noun

Meaning

Soil that is high in organic matter, including charcoal, indicating settlement and urbanization of an area when present as a horizon (i.e., a layer).

Any of several brownish earth tone colors; the correspondence of color name to hexidecimal color code is not universally standardized across corporations.
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Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth. Mircea Eliade

I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us. Pablo Neruda

Mute in the clamour of shells he watched them burst Spouting dark earth and wire with gusts from hell, While posturing giants dissolved in drifts of smoke. Siegfried Sassoon

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