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Black Country en · PROPN

Etymology

From the smoke and heavy industry of the area.

Meanings

1. An area of West Midlands, England, traditionally seen as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
   • […] and with the two promised Sheffielders, Driver Elliott and Fireman Lewis, we were soon on our way over the most unapproachably dreary region of the whole run, scarcely to be paralleled in the Black Country itself. 1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
   • I was on a very loose end when one day, outside the Secretariat, as they call it, I ran up against a man called Fraser whom I'd known building a viaduct or something of that sort in the Black Country. 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:

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