Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.
- noun plural engraving Soot flying in the air.
- noun plural Black garments, etc. See
Black , n., 4.
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- noun Plural form of
black . - noun A kind of
ink in used incopperplate printing , prepared from the charred husks of thegrape and theresidue of the wine press. - noun UK
Soot flying in the air. - noun Black
garments , etc.
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Examples
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In the seventh Annual Report it is said, "An effort for the benefit of the blacks, in which all parts of the country can unite, of course must not have the abolition of slavery for its immediate object; _nor may it aim directly at the instruction of the blacks_."
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841
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It is better for the enemy that this vast majority be split up into what they call blacks and then Indians and Coloureds.
OUR ALLIANCE IS A LIVING ORGANISM THAT HAS GROWN OUT OF STRUGGLE 1981
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It is better for the enemy that this vast majority be split up into what they call blacks and then Indians and Coloureds.
OUR ALLIANCE IS A LIVING ORGANISM THAT HAS GROWN OUT OF STRUGGLE 1981
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And we had the colored people, which they call blacks now — I was always taught to call them colored people — but they would help if the husband ....
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He's an odd fellow at the best of times, and to-night he's got an attack of what he calls the blacks -- his form of blues.
The Woman with the Fan Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Presumably a positive statement about blacks would be allowed, but a negative statement about blacks is not.
The Volokh Conspiracy » (Maybe) Racist Vanity Plates and the First Amendment 2010
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The reason that you don't see a rebellion against SSI by urban poor and blacks is because it is not racist.
Friedman Interview, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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On the one hand, you had J.C. Calhoun, saying that slavery frees blacks from the horrors of Northern capitalism and that if slavery were abolished that raised the horrifying prospect of white enslavement.
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Nighttime -- bright moonlight, scene colored mostly in blacks, blues and purples.
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Presumably a positive statement about blacks would be allowed, but a negative statement about blacks is not.
The Volokh Conspiracy » (Maybe) Racist Vanity Plates and the First Amendment 2010
minerva commented on the word blacks
Also: clothing for mourning.
January 1, 2008
minerva commented on the word blacks
But one word to business, Jack. Whom dealtest thou with for thy blacks?-- Wert thou well used?-- I shall want a plaguy parcel of them. For I intend to make every soul of the family mourn-- Outside, if not in.
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
January 1, 2008