blacknesse

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English

Noun

blacknesse (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of blackness.
    • 1665 November 17 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “November 7th, 1665”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys , volume V, London: George Bell & Sons ; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC:
      Home to dinner, and there I took occasion, from the blacknesse of the meat as it came out of the pot, to fall out with my wife and my maid for their sluttery []