English

Proper noun

Blacks

1. plural of Black

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blak/

Noun

Blacks m pl, f pl

1. plural of Black

English

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. (Britain) Soot flying in the air.
4. Black garments, etc.
   • Francis Bacon

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

   • Sir T. North

     That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers.

Verb

blacks

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of black

French

Noun

blacks m, f

1. plural of black