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noun
a cocktail made with stout and champagne.
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Origin of black velvet
First recorded in 1925–30
Words nearby black velvet
blacktop, Blacktown, black tracker, black treacle, black tree fern, black velvet, Black Volta, black vomit, black vulture, Blackwall hitch, black walnut
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British Dictionary definitions for black velvet
black velvet
noun
a mixture of stout and champagne in equal proportions
Australian slang Aboriginal women as sexual partners
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