Black

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• The medieval Christian sect known as the Cathars viewed black as a colour of perfection.
• The Rastafari movement sees black as beautiful.
• In Japanese culture, kuro (black) is a symbol of nobility, age, and experience, as opposed to shiro (white), which symbolizes serfdom, youth, and naiveté.
• To say one's accounts are "in the black" is used to mean that one is or "no longer in the red", or free of debt .

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• A black-hearted person is mean and unloving.
• A blacklist is a list of undesirable persons or entities (to be placed on the list is to be "blacklisted").
• Black comedy is a form of comedy dealing with morbid and serious topics.
• A black mark against a person relates to something bad they have done.
• A black mood is a bad one (Winston Churchill's clinical depression, which he called "my black dog").
• black market is used to denote the trade of illegal goods, or alternatively the illegal trade of otherwise legal items at considerably higher prices, e.g. to evade rationing.
• Black propaganda is the use of known falsehoods, partial truths, or masquerades in propaganda to confuse an opponent.
• Blackmail is the act of threatening to reveal information about a person unless the threatened party fulfills certain demands. This information is usually of an embarrassing or socially damaging nature. Ordinarily, such a threat is illegal.
• If the black eight-ball, in billiards, is sunk before all others are out of play, the player loses.
• The black sheep of the family is the ne'er-do-well.
• To blackball someone is to block their entry into a club or some such institution.