negrobilia

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negrobilia (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of Negrobilia
    • 2007, Deborah Clarke, Driving Women, →ISBN:
      Birdie's negrobilia provides both identity and security, reminders of a time when she was black and had a sister.
    • 2013, Danzy Senna, From Caucasia, with Love, →ISBN, page 306:
      Then the third thought, and the tears would have begun to fall now as she saw that the box of negrobilia was missing. That the Golliwog was missing.
    • 2015, James Grissom, Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog, →ISBN:
      ... along the way stopped for pounds of coffee, items of negrobilia, chunks of pralines, a glance at a drugstore window that featured both vintage advertising and bold examples of soft-core pornography (“Medicine for some, I suppose," Tenn quipped), and, desiring a brief respite, a stop in the Central Grocery, where Tenn had a beer and one of the city's cherished muffuletta sandwiches, which he cut into four wedges and ate as carefully as he chose his words, which came forth at a slow, painful pace.

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