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Black Flags

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Moslem soldiers. The banner of the Abbasides (3 syl.) is black; that of the Fatimites (3 syl.) green; and that of the Ommiades (3 syl.) white. Hence the banner of the Kalif of Bagdad is black, but that of the Sultan of Damascus is green. (Gibbon, chap, iii.)

Black Flags. Pirates of the Chinese Sea who opposed the French in Tonquin, etc.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Black Brunswickers
Black Cap
Black Cattle
Black Cattle
Black Death
Black Diamonds
Black Dog
Black Doll (A)
Black Douglas
Black Flag (A)
Black Flags
Black-foot
Blackfoot (The)
Black Friars
Black Friday
Black Game
Black Genevan (A)
Black-guards
Black Hole of Calcutta
Black Horse
Black Jack

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