to wear black
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2.1
- phrasal verb
:
vestir de negro
- Here in the US we all wear black to funerals.
- wear black clothing
- wear black pants
- wear black armbands
And so I I think that wearing black in solidarity is one step.
- And so I I think that wearing black in solidarity is one step.
- Bad guys don't always twirl their mustaches and wear black hats and good guys, right?
- And what we're all going to do is we're going to wear black suits, white shirts and black ties.
- And to be quite honest with you, outside of like doing work events or podcast, I wear black everyday.
- If you've been watching my videos, you're probably nodding your head right now because I wear black a lot, it's true.
- So why I wear black T-shirts is because it gets rid of like a decision fatigue.
- I just think that this is so cute, it's stylish, it feels vintage to me, and also I love wearing black.
- She said she hates her bridesmaids dress as the color is ugly and makes her look gross so she's wearing black.
- And I think what he would argue is, hey, whether someone hates you for being black, for being a woman, for wearing black, for loving women, whatever it may be, it's just speech.
- He wore black and Rick Newman, the owner, wore black and Mark Krantz, the.
- They believe that they cannot wear black and Navy and all these other rules come out.
Examples
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Lars asked us not to wear black today.
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She's wearing black today.
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Am I supposed to wear black for the rest of my life?
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Out of respect for my late husband and your father I wear black.
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Here in the US, we all wear black to funerals.
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You're not supposed to wear black to these things anymore.
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Phillip looked up at her again then and realized why she was wearing black.
Fiction book (1991) -
I'm in a job where we wear black robes in part because we're speaking for the law.
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Bobby's own grandmother, his father's mother, always wore black, even to picnics and street fairs.
Fiction book (1999) -
Here in the US, we all wear black to funerals.
How Somber
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2.1
- Informal
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3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'wear' = have clothing on and 'black' = the color (black clothes), so 'wear black' plainly means to dress in black clothing. The mourning nuance is a common cultural extension but the basic meaning is immediately inferable from the constituents and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
Wear black comes from the old habit of people choosing to wear black clothes when someone died. Wearing black showed others you were 'mourning' and paying 'respect', so today wear black still means to dress in black as a sign of grief or respect.