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Etymology

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From black +‎ -less.

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blackless (not comparable)

  1. Without black people.
    • 2004, Carlyle Van Thompson, The tragic black buck: racial masquerading in the American literary imagination:
      Likewise, as Nick relates the disturbing presence of blacks, his analysis suggests that many white nationalists speculate on the possibility of a blackless country.
    • 2009, Charles S Aiken, William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape:
      As strange as it may seem, millions of white southerners live in a largely blackless South, and a number of blacks live in isolated rural and urban communities where they have little contact with a variety of whites.

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