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Definition of Blackamoor
1. Noun. A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul, Person Of Color, Person Of Colour
Geographical relationships: Africa
Specialized synonyms: Negress, Black Man, Black Woman, Colored, Colored Person, Darkey, Darkie, Darky, Coon, Jigaboo, Nigga, Nigger, Nigra, Spade, Tom, Uncle Tom, Picaninny, Piccaninny, Pickaninny
Group relationships: Black Race, Negro Race, Negroid Race
Language type: Archaism, Ethnic Slur, Archaism, Archaism
Definition of Blackamoor
1. n. A negro or negress.
Definition of Blackamoor
1. Proper noun. A village in England. ¹
2. Proper noun. (obsolete or archaic offensive) A Moor. ¹
3. Noun. (degrading) A person with dark skin, especially (but not necessarily) one from northern Africa ¹
4. Noun. a blackamoor slave, a blackamoor servant; and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child ¹
5. Noun. (heraldry) a stylized Negro ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blackamoor
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackamoor
Literary usage of Blackamoor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and ...by Thomas Sheridan by Thomas Sheridan (1790)
"To BLACK, blik'. va To make mourning ; a blackamoor ; that part black, ...
blackamoor, blik'-i-mur. f. A negro. BLACKBERRY, bUk'-her-rv. f. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"blackamoor, я. Negro, black, black mau, moor, 3. Negro, blackamoor, black man,
... Hush-money, bribe to keep silence. Black man. Negro, blackamoor, black ..."
3. The Inns of Court and Chancery by William John Loftie (1893)
"... blackamoor —The Last Revels — What is an Utter Barrister? THE eminent inhabitants
of the Inner Temple of the legal profession have been very numerous. ..."
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