2. A wash that blackens, as opposed to {whitewash}; hence,
figuratively, calumny.
[1913 Webster]
To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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