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black-necked stork |
black-seeded |
black-stem spleenwort |
black-stemmed spleenwort |
black-tailed deer |
black-tie
| black-winged stilt
| blackamoor
| blackback flounder
| blackball
| blackband
black-tie
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective black-tie has 1 sense
- black-tie(s = adj.all) semi-formal, semiformal - moderately formal; requiring a dinner jacket; "he wore semiformal attire"; "a black-tie dinner"
CIDE DICTIONARY
black-tie, adj.
requiring semiformal evening clothes, e. g. a black bowtie and a tuxedo or dinner jacket for men, and a formal dress for women; contrasted with white-tie , for a fully formal occasion, and with informal , and casual . [WordNet 1.5]
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