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coalsack
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coalsack, n. [Coal + 2d sack.].
Any one of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud . [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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