EGAVE

blacks

About 18.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun plural of black
  2. 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.
  3. noun Black garments, etc.
  4. verb third-person singular simple present indicative of black

Similar words

pitch-black pitch-dark bleak calamitous disastrous grim dirty soiled unclean dark

Often followed by

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