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"BLACK BOOKS" is a plural of: black book. |
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Literature | Black Books To be in my black books. In bad odour; in disgrace; out of favour. The black books were those compiled in the reign of Henry VIII. to set forth the scandalous proceedings of the English monasteries, and were so called from the colour of their binding. We have similarly the Blue Book, the Red Book, and so on. Black Books of the Exchequer. An official account of the royal revenues, payments, perquisites, etc., in the reign of Henry II. Its cover was black leather. There are two of them preserved in the Public Record Office. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: BLACK BOOKS |
| Specialty definitions using "BLACK BOOKS": Bad Books, Black Lists, Books. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Black Books (2000) | |
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Books | |
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Expression using "BLACK BOOKS": be in smb.'s black books. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "BLACK BOOKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | nu fi în graţiile cuiva (be in smb.'s black books). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-k-k-l-o-o-s" | |
-3 letters: babools. | |
-4 letters: babool, baboos, blacks, blocks, cabobs, cloaks, kabobs. | |
-5 letters: baboo, backs, balks, blabs, black, blobs, block, blocs, bocks, bolas, bolos, boobs, books, cabob, calks, calos, cloak, coals, cobbs, colas, cooks, cools, kabob, kobos, kolas, kolos, kooks, lacks, lobos, locks, locos, looks, obols, skoal, slack, socko, sokol. | |
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