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Black Sea

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So called from the abounding black rock in the extensive coal-fields between the Bosʹphorus and Heracleʹa.

 

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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 Monday
Black Money
Black Ox
Black Parliament
Black Prince
Black Republicans
Black Rod
Black Rood of Sootland
Black Russia
Black Saturday
Black Sea
Black Sheep [Kârâ-Koin-loo]
Black Standard
Black Strap
Black Swan
Black-thorn Winter (The)
Black Thursday
Black Tom
Black Watch
Black … White
Blacks

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