Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dark-skinned person, especially one from northern Africa.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A negro; a black man or woman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A negro or negress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person with dark skin, especially (but not necessarily) one from northern Africa
- noun a blackamoor slave, a blackamoor servant; and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child
- noun heraldry a stylized Negro
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Seeing this the villain blackamoor feared for himself; so he killed Abrizah and fled for his life.
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But what if the blackamoor is a prophetic symbol and there really is a missing text to the third secret?
The man with the Blackamoor on his coat. Terry Nelson 2006
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But what if the blackamoor is a prophetic symbol and there really is a missing text to the third secret?
Archive 2006-11-26 Terry Nelson 2006
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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.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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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.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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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.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Orundelico -- "blackamoor," as he is being called -- has so turned the tables on him by successful mimicry of his speech as to elicit loud laughter from a party of sailors loitering near.
The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850
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I bounded up the stairs, through a door at the top, and crouched, wheezing with terror, in a deserted passage, while the sound of a raging blackamoor bursting from the hotel in vain pursuit sounded below.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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In those days, the merest suggestion that a nationalized army was under consideration by some illegitimate, foreign-born blackamoor prince or other was enough to send our gallant, free-enterprising forebears scuttling back to their moat-girded castles for the billhooks, maces, broadswords, and war hammers guaranteed them under the Second Amendment to Erik Bloodaxe's Rules of Civilized Mayhem.
Stop the Government Takeover of America's Armed Forces! 2009
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A dog dies; then a blackamoor is killed; and now an Irishman is set to meet his doom.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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