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 | | However, to say one's accounts are "in the fl" is used to mean that one is free of debt; being "in the red" is to be in debt—because in traditional bookkeeping, negative amounts were printed in red ink (such as losses) and positive amounts (such as profits) were printed in fl ink. |
 | | In these cultures, the color fl is often seen as the color of mourning, though this convention is less strict than in earlier times, when widows and widowers were expected to wear fl for a year after the death of their spouses. |
 | | Black is also used for anarchist flags, and is sometime splitted in diagonal with other colors, such as pink for anarcho-queer, green for anarcho-ecologist, or red for anarcho-communism. |
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