blacks

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/blæks/

noun

A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.

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Meanings

blacks1

noun
  1. pluralplural of black
  2. A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
  3. Black garments, etc.

    Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible.

    1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Death”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC
    1 more example

    that was the full time they vsed to were blackes for the death of their fathers

    1579, Thomas North, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes
verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of black

Blacks2

proper noun
  1. pluralplural of Black

Blacks3

noun
  1. pluralplural of Black

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
smoked irish

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with blacks

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blacks,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blacks.

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