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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US, southern) A geographic region where the residents are predominantly or exclusively African-American."
],
"tags": [
"Southern",
"US"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Geology"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2014, Richard Pillsbury, editor, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, volume 2, University of North Carolina Press, page 157",
"text": "The Black Belt region, also called the Black Prairie, extends 300 miles across central Alabama and northeast Mississippi and into Tennessee. […] The dark soil for which the Black Belt was named was once famous for its richness and the abundant cotton produced in it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Seth C. McKee, The Dynamics of Southern Politics: Causes and Consequences, CQ Press, page 9",
"text": "The most politically powerful southerners were those who hailed from the black belt region— distinguished by its dark and fertile soil—which contained the bulk of large-scale plantation and hence the highest percentage of slaves.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A roughly crescent-shaped geological formation of dark fertile soil in the Southern United States."
],
"links": [
[
"geology",
"geology"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(geology) A roughly crescent-shaped geological formation of dark fertile soil in the Southern United States."
],
"topics": [
"geography",
"geology",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Black Belt"
}
],
"word": "black belt"
}
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