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Definition of Noirs
1. noir [n] - See also: noir
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noirs
Literary usage of Noirs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies by Bryan Edwards (1806)
"Conduct of the British Association for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, anff of
the Society in Paris called Les Amis des noirs—Letter from Abbe Gregoire to ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1821)
"... Amis des noirs. Jts Proceedings. The Inhabitants of St. Domingo send 18 Deputies
to the National Assembly in 1789. Suppression of an Insurrection of the ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1819)
"... noirs ; bottines ; manteau de drop gris descendant jusqu'au genou ; collet et
agraffe noirs; chapeau rond entoure d"ttn crepe. ..."
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