English

Noun

Egyptian darkness ‎(uncountable)

1. Very intense darkness.
   • 1970, Margarete Orga (ed.), The House on the Fontanka, Kimber 1970, p. 67:

     'An Egyptian darkness,' Demyan Lukich remarked, lifting the blind a little.

   • Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy Sayers, Harcourt, Brace, 1933, p. 146:

     Except for the shaft of light thrown by her own headlamps, the darkness was Egyptian.