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Negroes vs Blacks - What's the difference?

negroes | blacks |

As nouns the difference between negroes and blacks

is that negroes is while blacks is .

negroes

English

Noun

(head)

    • blacks

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
  • (UK) Soot flying in the air.
  • 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.
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