Black
n.— «Cela ne veut pas dire qu’on est racistes. Blacks, Blancs ou “Hindous,” on a tous grandi dans la même cité. On peut se permettre des familiarités sur nos différences de culture. C’est un jeu.» —“Vivre avec 400 mots” by Frédéric Potet Le Monde (Paris, France) Mar. 18, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Cat hair may be something you brush off, but cat hair is also a slang term that means “money.” In the same way, cat beer isn’t alcoholic — some people use cat beer as a joking term for “milk.” And imagine walking on a...