Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- comedy that employs morbid, gloomy, grotesque, or calamitous situations in its plot.
first recorded 1961, from black (adj.) in a figurative sense of “morbid;” cf. French pièce noire. In a racial sense, from 1921.
noun
first recorded 1961, from black (adj.) in a figurative sense of “morbid;” cf. French pièce noire. In a racial sense, from 1921.