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

adjective
1.
Lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black.  "Black-and-white blooms" , "Black-and-white stripes"
2.
Not having or not capable of producing colors.  Synonym: black and white.  "A black-and-white TV" , "The movie was in black and white"  Antonym: color.
3.
Of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories.  "There are no black-and-white certainties" , "There were no grey areas, you were either for him or against him, he was all black-and-white"






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"Black-and-white" Quotes from Famous Books



... know," she interrupted, her great black eyes still deriding him, while her thin face was screwed up into seriousness, as she regarded Mr Sloyd's blameless garments of springtime gray, his black-and-white tie, his hair so very sleek, his drooping mustache, and his pink cheeks. She had taken his measure as perfectly as the tailor himself, and was enjoying the counterfeit presentment of a real London dandy who came to her in the shape of a house-agent. "I don't ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope

... that me? Is this sketch here, admittedly imperfect, a mere black-and-white swift outline, not intended to be shaded or coloured, or brought up to the round; is this mere outline of what a good man ought to be, at all like me? Yes or no? I think we must all say No to the question, and acknowledge our failure to ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... phenomenal, his chief felt a qualm of pique upon being warned against the big puma. He had too just an appreciation of Hansen's judgment, however, to quite disregard the warning, and he turned it over curiously in his mind as he went to his dressing-room. Emerging a few minutes later in the black-and-white of faultless evening dress, without a speck on his varnished shoes, he moved down along the front of the cages, addressing to the occupant of each, as he passed, a sharp, authoritative word which ...
— Kings in Exile • Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

... bits o' things, you need look to nobody but me, for I can do 'em wi' one hand when I've got my suds about. Eh, the blessed angil! You'll let me bring my Aaron one o' these days, and he'll show her his little cart as his father's made for him, and the black-and-white pup as he's ...
— Silas Marner - The Weaver of Raveloe • George Eliot

... forget that the world held a Lois, a Rosie, and a Claude, each a storm-center of emotions. It was a respite from emotions—in a measure, a respite from himself. He stepped craftily, following the sound of the woodpecker's tap till he had the satisfaction of seeing a black-and-white back, with a red band across the busily bobbing head. He stopped again to watch a chipmunk who was more sharply watching him. The little fellow, red-brown and striped, sat cocked on a stone, his fore paws crossed on his white ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King


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