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- noun A
female Moor ; aMoorish woman .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This lady is the only native woman in the country, Mooress or Jewess, who has tact or courage enough to go and speak to the Emperor, and state her request with an unfaltering voice beneath the awful shadow of the Shereefian presence!
Travels in Morocco 2003
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On my return, I passed a Mooress, or rather a Mauritanian Venus, who was so stout that she had fallen down, and could not get up.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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Mooress, or a converted Negress; the name has nothing to do with a numeral, as Mr. Bowdich suggests, and above all not with the
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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This good amiable lady is somewhat _spirituelle_ for a Mooress, and makes lively and apposite remarks on other things, as well as religion.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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The ladies of the town and other persons of authority said loudly that they were cheated of a fine ceremony, since the Mooress was crying her eyes out in the jail and would certainly be converted to God in order to live as long as a crow, if she were allowed to do so, to which the seneschal replied that if the foreigner would wholly commit herself to the
Droll Stories — Volume 1 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Mooress, to pay for all, should be burned and cooked alive in the square near the fountain where the herb market is.
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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The ladies of the town and other persons of authority said loudly that they were cheated of a fine ceremony, since the Mooress was crying her eyes out in the jail and would certainly be converted to God in order to live as long as a crow, if she were allowed to do so, to which the seneschal replied that if the foreigner would wholly commit herself to the
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Mooress, to pay for all, should be burned and cooked alive in the square near the fountain where the herb market is.
Droll Stories — Volume 1 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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The young Mooress did not hesitate between the flaming faggots and the baptismal water.
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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The young Mooress did not hesitate between the flaming faggots and the baptismal water.
Droll Stories — Volume 1 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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