Category: black...
- diving for black pearls in Polynesia
- black Moleskine notebooks
- black belts in the martial arts
- the pupil of the eye was once called the black
- the black box, an aircraft's flight data recorder, is usually orange, not black
- black derives from a root that means burnt or scorched
- black is, optically, the total absence of color due to the absence or total absorption of light
- perfect blackness being a rare attribute of objects; those from the surface of which very little light is reflected are commonly called black
- black as the color of fertility in ancient Egypt
- clergy dressed in black as a proclamation of faith and renunciation of vanities
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