pitch darkness
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Etymology
From pitch dark + -ness.
Noun
- Intense darkness with no light whatsoever.
- 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 342:
- To go through this experience in bitter winter weather and stumble along the line in the pitch darkness at 6 o'clock in the morning, into an icy-cold foundry, as was the writer's experience, was not too good.
- 2020 March 25, Steve Roberts, “Parly-vous?”, in RAIL, page 69:
- The trip is interesting, but hard to describe in pitch darkness.
References
- “pitch darkness”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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