blackamoor

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa.

   • Argent, three blackamoors’ heads couped sable, capped or, fretty gules.
   • Go venture shipwreck on the sullen coasts Where blackamoors make captive Christian men ...
2. 2

   A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child.

   • She seems to have been a serious girl, but she remembered her father's characterization of her as his "Little blackamoor."
3. 3

   A village in Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6925).

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   1. 4

      Alternative letter-case form of blackamoor.

      • […] Mrs. Milford broke the thread of his soliloquy by desiring he would not talk about nasty Blackamoors any more, for she should dream of them at her bed-side.
      • "Although, as we now realize, no Blackamoor at any 18th century European court was merely decorative, in Ibrahim's case, Peter's expectations for him were as loaded with responsibility as those he would have had for his own son."

The neighborhood

• synonymblack
• synonymNegro