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

Swedish

Noun

blacks

1. indefinite genitive singular of black