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black-figure

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(blak′fig′yər)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
black-fig•ure  (blak′fig′yər),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. Fine Artpertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
Also, black′fig′ured. Cf. red-figure. 
  • 1890–95

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