Definitions

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  • noun archaic A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia.
  • noun archaic Any black-skinned person.

Etymologies

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Latin Aethiops, Ancient Greek Αἰθίοψ (Aithiops, "charred complexion"), from αἴθω (aithō, "I burn") + ὤψ (ōps, "eye, face, complexion").

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Examples

  • “Furkán,” meanings as in Syr. and Ethiop. deliverance, revelation, is applied alike to the Pentateuch and Koran.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But the Ethiop cannot change his skin, nor can any man add a cubit to his stature.

    Hunting Sketches 2004

  • Shakes with the sleepless surge; — the Ethiop there

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • A piece of clock-work, an Ethiop riding upon a rhinoceros, with four attendants, who all make their obeisance when it strikes the hour; these are all put into motion by winding up the machine.

    Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 2003

  • Tanus seized my shoulders and stared into my eyes for a moment before he grinned, 'But for you, that hairy Ethiop would have had me.

    River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

  • If the rains caught us in the valleys, they would prove a more dangerous enemy than any Ethiop army.

    River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

  • That barelegged boy in his outgrown tunic seems as strange to me now as an Ethiop to a Thracian.

    The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

  • He came with twenty-five elephants, on the first of which he sat like a glittering image in his painted howdah; a handsome man of good stature, darker than a Mede, but not so dark as an Ethiop.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

  • The will of God that such a new order of civilization should be established, in which the negro and white man should mutually aid each other, and supply each other's deficiencies, is not only revealed in Hebrew words, written thousands of years ago, but revealed also in the laws of nature, and revealed by _Ethiop nowhere else but in our slaveholding States, stretching forth her arms to God_.

    Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

  • Here are we forever supplied with pork and oysters and sweet-potatoes and rice and hominy and corn-bread and milk; also mysterious griddle-cakes of corn and pumpkin; also preserves made of pumpkin-chips, and other fanciful productions of Ethiop art.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

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