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black as the ace of spades
vs
fuscous
black as the ace of spades
adj
Utterly black; pitch-black.
fuscous
adj
Dark in color, dark-hued; dusky, swarthy.
How often have the words
black as the ace of spades
and
fuscous
occurred in a corpus of books?
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