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Brewer's: Black Russia
Central and Southern Russia is so called from its black soil “The winter crops in the whole of European Russia are very good, especially in the black-earth regions. In the government of…Brewer's: Black Saturday
August 4th, 1621; so called in Scotland, because a violent storm occurred at the very moment the Parliament was sitting to enforce episcopacy on the people. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Black Sea
So called from the abounding black rock in the extensive coal-fields between the Bosphorus and Heracle'a. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Black SheepBlack…Brewer's: Black Sheep
[Kârâ-Koin-loo ]. A tribe of Turkomans, so called from their standards. This tribe was extirpated by the White Sheep (q.v.). A Black Sheep. A disgrace to the family; a mauvais sujet; a…Brewer's: Black Standard
The dress, turbans, and standards of the Abbasside caliphs were all black. (D'Herbelot. ) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Black StrapBlack Sheep A B C D…Brewer's: Black Strap
Bad port wine. A sailor's name for any bad liquor. In North America, “Black-strap” is a mixture of rum and molasses, sometimes vinegar is added. “The seething blackstrap was pronounced…Brewer's: Black Swan
(See Rara Avis.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Black-thorn WinterBlack Strap A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…Brewer's: Black Thursday
February 6th, 1851; so called in the colony of Victoria, from a terrible bush-fire which then occurred. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Black TomBlack-thorn…Brewer's: Black Tom
The Earl of Ormonde, Lord Deputy of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth; so called from his ungracious ways and “black looks.” “He being very stately in apparel, and erect in port, despite…Brewer's: Black Watch
Companies employed to watch the Islands of Scotland. They dressed in a “black” or dark tartan (1725). Subsequently they were enrolled into the 42nd regiment, under the Earl of Crawford, in…Trending
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