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Blackamoor

noun
1.
A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).  Synonyms: Black, Black person, Negro, Negroid.





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"Blackamoor" Quotes from Famous Books



... Benito, with Monty on the chestnut, Juan—a mount well suited to his stature and requirements. Last rode Molly on Juana, another chestnut, and a perfect match for her brother—Monty's Juan; while Herbert's Blackamoor finished the caravan, last but by no means least in the creature's own ...
— Dorothy on a Ranch • Evelyn Raymond
... out the seventh volume of Bacon, I believe: with Capital Prefaces to Henry VII., etc. But I have not yet seen it. After vol. viii. (I think) there is to be a Pause: till Spedding has set the Letters to his Mind. Then we shall see what he can make of his Blackamoor. . . . ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes - Vol. II • Edward FitzGerald


Words linked to "Blackamoor" :   Negress, tom, Negro race, nigra, Black race, archaism, nigger, person, coon, someone, darkie, Black man, colored person, ethnic slur, nigga, piccaninny, individual, mortal, spade, Negroid race, colored, darky, soul, person of colour, Black woman, darkey, Uncle Tom, somebody, person of color, Africa, jigaboo, pickaninny, picaninny


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