English Explanatory Dictionary

Penny Black

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The world's first official national mail postage stamp, issued in 1840 in the United Kingdom as part of the postal reforms establishing a uniform penny post.

Word forms

Penny Black Penny Blacks

Etymology

From its color and face value.

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