black velvet
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Noun
editblack velvet (countable and uncountable, plural black velvets)
- (Australia, uncountable, slang) An Australian aboriginal woman viewed by a white man as a sexual partner.
- 1989, John Joseph Healy, Literature and the Aborigine in Australia[1], page 162:
- But the Krater who introduces Mark to black velvet is totally human and, in his gestures, culpable.
- 2002, John Maynard, Aboriginal Stars of the Turf: Jockeys of Australian Racing History[2], page 105:
- Writer, Xavier Herbert, said that white men would refuse to work on remote stations without available Aboriginal women or ‘black velvet’.
- (Australia, uncountable, slang) Sexual intercourse with an Australian aboriginal woman.
- 2009, Jill Roe, Her Brilliant Career: The Life of Stella Miles Franklin[3], page 494:
- Black velvet — that is, the sexual abuse of Aboriginal women — had become highly topical with the publication of Coonardoo and Capricornia, and Miles’ choices in this area still seem reasonable.
- (countable, uncountable) A cocktail of stout and champagne (or sometimes a cheaper type of sparkling white wine).
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edit- R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, →ISBN, page 212.