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† ˈNigro Obs.
Also 6 nygro.
[ad. Sp. negro Negro, after L. nigr-, niger.]
A Negro.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, p. vii/1 Their faces, neckes, armes & handes, couered in fyne pleasaunce blacke..so that the same ladies semed to be nygrost [sic] or blacke Mores. 1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. iii. 9 Our men saw certaine little Nigroes. 1618Lithgow Pilgr. Farewell C j, I know these Nigroes, of the Austriale Sunne, Haue not endur'd such heat. |