blackamoor

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Noun
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black=a=moor

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun blackamoor has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

blackamoorn. [Black + Moor.].
     A negro or negress.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

blackamoor, n. archaic a dark-skinned person, esp. a Negro.

Etymology
BLACK + MOOR(2)

ROGET THESAURUS

blackamoor

Blackness

N blackness darkness, (want of light), swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink, in mourning.


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