English Explanatory Dictionary

blackhood

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state or condition of being black (all senses); blackness.

Word forms

blackhood blackhoods

Etymology

From black + -hood. In some senses perhaps from blend of black + brotherhood. Compare Middle English blakhede (“blackness”), of equivalent formation.

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