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black art

noun

  1. witchcraft; magic.


black art

noun

  1. the black art
    another name for black magic
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of black art1

First recorded in 1580–90
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He has said that during the day he was a scheduler but at night, he was "trafficking in the black arts."

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"All dental students are trained to make dentures but the black art of making them is being lost as they are not getting the practice," he says.

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These streets of mud, in which the dead were laid out, also swarmed with “a wicked generation of pretenders to magic, to the black art, as they called it.”

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It is home to one of the city’s most enviable collections of 19th and 20th-century black art, at the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum.

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Vendors sold local black art and offered free paint and canvasses.

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