Definition of “black-and-white”

A lovely black-and-white engraving shows a cheetah sharing a cot with its keeper.

A soldier holding a gun, watching frightened, fleeing figures in a fuzzy black-and-white photograph in a history book.

Geordie fans would be excited at the prospect of seeing their one-time hero back in a black-and-white shirt.

I watched'Little Mo' Maureen Connolly on a flickering black-and-white television set but she still lit up the screen.

On night seven, the target picture was again a black-and-white photograph of a nursing infant whose mother was nude from the waist up.

She'd seen her flickering black-and-white picture on some late-night movie channel.

Technicians strove to maintain the cinematic quality of the black-and-white source.

The Bush administration likes to operate in a black-and-white world, where conviction and clarity trump nuance and diplomacy.

There were available: the handsome tabby; a long-haired black-and-white cat; a white cat with grey patches.