the world’s first stamp, invented by Sir Rowland Hill and issued in 1840. The image on it is Queen Victoria. The main color of this stamp is black and there is “ONE PENNY” written at the bottom of the stamp.
My father is hunting the Penny black.
Submitted on: 11/05/2016
Penny Black
noun
DEFINITIONS1
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the world’s first stamp, invented by Sir Rowland Hill and issued in 1840. The image on it is Queen Victoria. The main color of this stamp is black and there is “ONE PENNY” written at the bottom of the stamp.
My father is hunting the Penny black.
Submitted on: 11/05/2016
penny black
noun countable
UK
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Penny Blacknoun
Word Forms
singular
penny black
plural
penny blacks
DEFINITIONS1
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a 19th-century British stamp that was the first sticky stamp ever to be used for letters