Black Country
nameEtymology
From the smoke and heavy industry of the area.
Definitions
An area of West Midlands, England, traditionally seen as the birthplace of the Industrial…
An area of West Midlands, England, traditionally seen as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
- 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.
- […] 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.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA