Blackamoor
[blækә,muә]
Definition
(n.) A negro or negress.
Typist: Sanford
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Negro, BLACK.
Edited by Aaron
Examples
- I've never met with nothing but beer ath'll ever clean a comic blackamoor. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I am such a blackamoor that I cannot smirch myself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He looks down upon us country people as so many blackamoors. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typed by Brooke