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What does in black and white mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word in black and white? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (idiomatic) Explicitly, in writing, clearly and without doubt or misunderstanding, without any grey areas.
  2. (literally) Using shades of grey/gray rather than colour/color.
  3. Having it displayed using shades of gray/gray rather than colour/color (as it was shot or recorded).
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Examples
The bathrooms are smartly tiled in black and white, and feature the unusual touch of a dimmer switch for the lights.
Documentary photographs are integrated with the text, reproductions in black and white appear in one insert, those in colour in another.
Early lithographs were printed in black and white and sometimes colored by hand.
Brice paints on large plywood panels, predominantly in black and white house paint which he applies in a scrubbing motion.
Shot in black and white with dramatic and significant flashes of colour it's three stories rolled into one.
I think we are living in a world where people want to see things in black and white terms.

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