black
adjective
being a color that lacks hue and brightness and absorbs light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
well-blacked
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a word derived from
black.
Example Sentences
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Broad, but short and well-blacked gaskets, placed at equal distances on the yard, for showing off a well-furled sail in port: there is generally one upon every other seam.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
‘It was my fault,’ she blurted out, looking steadfastly over the edge of the dish at the well-blacked boots of the Canon.
From The Youngest Girl in the School by Evelyn Sharp
He stopped by the stage step, and wheeling nimbly, surveyed his old-time acquaintance, noting the good hat, the prosperous watch-chain, the big, well-blacked boots.
From The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Owen Wister
He paused a moment before Dolph; then spitting a discharge of tobacco-juice on his well-blacked boots, and giving a contemptuous umph, he walked on.
From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
He might have seemed some secretary or clerk engaged in the service of the public, only that his low, flat, and unadorned cap, and his well-blacked, shining shoes, indicated that he belonged to the city.
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott
