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 Black Art.Black-balled. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Black Assize.
 
July 6th, 1577, when a putrid pestilence broke out at Oxford during the time of assize.   1
 


 Black Art.Black-balled. 

 
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