烏からすの濡ぬれ羽ば色いろ

expression, noun

glossy black; jet-black

Describes a lustrous, deep black color, especially of hair, likened to the sheen of a crow's wet feathers. Often used in literary or poetic contexts.

• 彼かの女じょの髪かみは烏からすの濡ぬれ羽ば色いろのように美うつくしかった。

  Her hair was as beautiful as the glossy black of a crow's wet feathers.

• 烏からすの濡ぬれ羽ば色いろの着き物ものを着きて、彼かの女じょは式しきに出しゅっ席せきした。

  She attended the ceremony wearing a jet-black kimono.