blacks

See also: Blacks and bläcks

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blæks/
  • Rhymes: -æks

Noun

blacks

  1. plural 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.
    • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Death”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
      Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible.
    • 1579, Thomas North, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes:
      that was the full time they vsed to were blackes for the death of their fathers

Verb

blacks

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of black

French

Noun

blacks m or f

  1. plural of black

Portuguese

Noun

blacks

  1. plural of black

Swedish

Noun

blacks

  1. indefinite genitive singular of black
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