A Commonplace Book

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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