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blacked, ppl. a.|blækt|
[f. black + -ed1.]
1. Made or coloured black, blackened.
1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. 122 Gif thai see thair face blekkit. 1716Addison Drummer v. Mourning paper, that is black'd at the edges. 1815Scott Guy M. liii, Do you see that blackit and broken end of a sheeling?
2. blacked out, (a) obliterated with black; also fig.; (b) with lights extinguished or obscured; (c) of an aircraft pilot, temporarily blinded (see black v. 6).
1919Illustr. London News 27 Sept. 482 (caption) No longer ‘blacked out’: London herself again. 1930E. Pound XXX Cantos vii. 26 Time blacked out with the rubber. 1933Flight 2 Feb. 100/1 Tight turns had been made for much longer periods than 10 sec., while the pilot was ‘blacked out’, without any tendency whatsoever to lose consciousness. 1938San Francisco Examiner 27 Sept. 3/7 (headline) City blacked out in raid test. 1939Punch 8 Nov. 504/2 We must still endure the totally blacked-out nights. 1940C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil's Georgics i. 23 At the South pole..it's dead of night,..the shadows shrouded in night, blacked out for ever. 1940New Statesman 19 Oct. 371 Most unfavourable conditions—crowded shelters, stuffy, blacked-out factories and offices. 1967V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (ed. 2) xiv. 292 Opaque curtains separated me from blacked-out Paris. |