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blackamoor
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blackamoor
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun blackamoor has 1 sense
- blackamoor(n = noun.person) black, black person, negro, negroid - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa); Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul, person of color, person of colour
has particulars: negress, black man, black woman, colored, colored person, darkey, darkie, darky, coon, jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, spade, tom, uncle tom, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny
is a member of black race, negro race, negroid race
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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