blackamoor

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A courtier, who saw Othello performed at the Globe Theatre, remarked, that the blackamoor was a brute, and not a man.

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  1. noun Offensive A dark-skinned person, especially a person from northern Africa.

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  • But at last our gallant captain fell dead, cut down by the scimitar of a gigantic blackamoor, and the rest of us--very few by that time, I can assure you,--seeing this, threw down our arms and surrendered to the corsairs. —  Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
  • Larry had never before seen a blackamoor, for, as may be supposed, Africans seldom found their way into Tipperary Shure, your honour, is them Irishmen?" —  Paddy Finn
  • I'll ask him, and assure him that the blackamoor is not to be trusted On this O'Driscoll held forth to the old gentleman, who, however, as he could not make head nor tail of what was said to him, was not much edified. —  Hurricane Hurry
  • I rather think Julius Caesar must have fancied that I was one of his own race, and must have been greatly astonished at seeing a blackamoor washed white. —  Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures
  • He called for a blackamoor slave from abroad who did chores for him, and ordered a bottle of cooking brandy, then some club soda he had brought from London with him. —  Comic History of the United States
 

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  1. black + -a-, of unknown origin + Moor.

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  1. Also formerly blackmoor, blackamore, blackemore, -moor, etc., Scots blackymore; orig. and properly blackmoor, black Moor, from black + Moor. The inserted a is meaningless; cf. blackavised.
 

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/ˈblækəmur/
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