[F. = raven.] In the drapery trade, name for a dark green color verging on black.
1833. Lamb, Elia (1860), 281. You flaunted it about in that overworn suit—your old corbeau.
1862. Mrs. H. Wood, Mrs. Hallib., I. xxiii. The gloves … were of a very dark green colour, almost black, called corbeau in the trade.
