Blacks

Noun

plural

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. (UK) Soot flying in the air.
4. Black garments, etc.
• Francis BaconFriends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible.
• Sir T. NorthThat was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers.