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Definition of Black belt

1. Noun. A person who attained the rank of expert in the martial arts (judo or karate).

2. Noun. A black sash worn to show expert standards in the martial arts (judo or karate).

Definition of Black belt

1. Noun. The highest belt colour in various martial arts. ¹

2. Noun. Someone who has attained a black belt ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Belt

black babies black bag black bags black bamboo black bead black beans black bear black bearberry black bears black bee

black beech black beetle black beetles black belt (current term) black belts black bile black bindweed black birch black bloc black bodies

black body black book black box black box warning black boxes black bread black bream black brotus

Literary usage of Black belt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1907)
"... vn OF THE black belt I am black but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, ..."

2. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"Industrial Decay of the black belt CG Smith, Colonization of Negroes in Central ... He [the white in the black belt] certainly suffers as much, or more, ..."

3. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"... IN THE black belt. BY CHARLES BARTLETT DYKE, HONOLULU. THE negro's real menace to the South lies in the paucity of his earthly wants. ..."

4. Black America: A Study of the Ex-slave and His Late Master by William Laird Clowes (1891)
"CHAPTER I. THE black belt. THE total population of the United States, exclusive of Alaska and of the Indian Territory, was, according to the official ..."

5. Negro Migration During the War by Emmett Jay Scott (1920)
"CHAPTER VI The Draining of the black belt In order better to understand the migration movement, a special study of it was made for five adjoining States, ..."

6. Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical & Critical. Printed by Thomas Dolby, George Damiel, D. G., G. D., John Cumberland (1827)
"INKLE—Nankeen trowsers and jacket, white waistcoat, light hat, white stockings, black belt and hanger. SIR CHRISTOPHER—Blue coat, embroidered button-holes, ..."

7. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"black belt, a term at first applied to central Alabama, but later to all the Gulf ... The special problem of the black belt is the predominance of negroes ..."

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