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Black and white   /blæk ənd waɪt/   Listen
Black and white

noun
1.
Communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten).  Synonyms: written communication, written language.
2.
A black-and-white photograph or slide.  Synonym: monochrome.
adjective
1.
Not having or not capable of producing colors.  Synonym: black-and-white.  "A black-and-white TV" , "The movie was in black and white"






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"Black and white" Quotes from Famous Books



... Japanese Press and in attempting to win adherents among Japanese members of Parliament. Remarkable stories are current which compromise very highly-placed Japanese but which the writer hesitates to set down in black and white as documentary proof is not available. In any case, be this as it may, it was felt in Tokio that the time had arrived to give a proper definition to the relations between the two states,—the more so as ...
— The Fight For The Republic In China • B.L. Putnam Weale

... came her damsels, a decorous file, And then his Highness' eunuchs, black and white; The train might reach a quarter of a mile: His majesty was always so polite As to announce his visits a long while Before he came, especially at night; For being the last wife of the Emperour, She was of course the ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron

... for the precious spiritual part of the music to enter in and take possession. After this happens, use mechanical music to renew your memories of the concert, just as you would use a catalogue illustrated with etchings in black and white, to renew your memory ...
— The Joyful Heart • Robert Haven Schauffler

... the negro the "Melting Pot" of America will not fail to act in a measure as it has acted on the Red Indian, who has found it almost as facile to mate with his white neighbours as with his black. Indeed, it is as much social prejudice as racial antipathy that to-day divides black and white in the New World; and Sir Sydney Olivier has recorded that in Jamaica the white is far more on his guard and his dignity against the half-white than against the all-black, while in Guiana, according to Sir Harry Johnston in his great work ...
— The Melting-Pot • Israel Zangwill

... they caused the supply of labor to exceed the demand, lowering the wages of some and driving out of employment a number of others who became paupers and consequently criminals. There set in too an intense struggle between the black and white laborers,[5] immensely accelerating the growth of race prejudice, especially when the abolitionists and Quakers were ...
— A Century of Negro Migration • Carter G. Woodson


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