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Black Country

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Black Country
A highly industrialized region of west-central England centered on Birmingham. It was named for the grime accumulated from factory smoke and other industrial pollutants.
Black Country
Noun
the Black Country the formerly heavily industrialized West Midlands of England
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Black Country n (BRIT): the Black Country → región industrial del centro de Inglaterra
Black Country n (Brit);
the Black Country → le Pays Noir (dans les Midlands)
Black Country (Brit) n the Black Country → Industriegebiet in den englischen Midlands
Black Country n (BRIT): the Black Country → zona carbonifera del centro dell'Inghilterra
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On, through many tunnels into the black country itself, where the furnace fires burned oftener, but the signs of habitation were fewer.
The Illustrious Prince by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
He turned his head the other way, and the cold black country seemed to frown him off, and drive him for a refuge into its hospitable arms.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
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