black code
chiefly US (now historical )
noun
Any of various legal codes applied to black people; especially each of the bodies of laws restricting the civil rights and liberties of black people that were enacted in the Southern United States following the Civil War.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Malachy Postlethwayt (c1707–1767), writer on economics and publicist.
- from the (bottom of one's) heart
- from the bottom up
- from the dead
- from the floor
- from the ground up
- from the horse's mouth
- from thence
- from thenceforth
- from the top
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- from the word go
- from time to time
- from top to bottom
- from top to toe
- from whence
- frond
- frondage
- Fronde
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- front
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