black beauty

Dark-coated horse

Black beauty is slang for a black capsule containing amphetamines, popular as a street drug from the 1960s through the 1980s: He popped a black beauty before the all-night drive.

The term also refers to anything admired for its dark coloring—a horse, a car, or a person. (Capitalized *Black Beauty* is the 1877 Anna Sewell novel about a horse.)

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literature · color · humane treatment · animal cruelty · Victorian · chestnut · classic · moral tale · elegance · autobiography · compassion · working horses · allure · wild mustangs · war horses · grace · monochrome · Arabian horses

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coloration/appearance

black beautywhite horse

Light-coated equine

white stallion · Silver · albino · palomino · ivory

literary/cultural status

black beautywar horse

Battle-trained mount or veteran

Rocinante · The Black Stallion

aesthetic valence

black beautyeyesore

Offensively unattractive thing

ugly duckling · plain Jane · monstrosity · grotesque · fright

Family

black, beauty, blacks, blacker, blackest, blacken, blackened, blackening, blackness

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G