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Blackamoor|ˈblækəmʊə(r), -mɔə(r)|
Forms: 6 blake More, Blacke Moryn, black a Moore, 6–7 blacke Moore, blackmoor(e, 7 Black-Moor(e, -More, -moor, black Moor, Blackmore, -moore, Blackemore, Black-a-Moore, Black-amoore, blackeamoore, 7–8 Blackamore, Blackamoor(e, 7– blackamoor.
[= Black Moor, a form actually used down to middle of 18th c. Blackamoor is found 1581: of the connecting a no satisfactory explanation has been offered. The suggestion that it was a retention of the final -e of ME. black-e (obs. in prose before 1400) is, in the present state of the evidence, at variance with the phonetic history of the language, and the analogy of other black- compounds. Cf. black-a-vised.]
1. A black-skinned African, an Ethiopian, a Negro; any very dark-skinned person. (Formerly without depreciatory force; now a nickname.)
1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. 212, I am a blake More borne in Barbary. 1548Thomas Ital. Gram., Ethiopo, a blacke More, or a man of Ethiope. 1552Huloet, Blacke Moryns or Mores. 1581T. Howell Deuises (1879) 184 Like one that washeth a black a Moore white. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 239 Shee is painted like a blackmoore. 1604Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 98 This is the Blackamore that by washing was turned white. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. i. 80, I care not and she were a Black-a-Moore. 1614Raleigh Hist. World i. 95 The Negro's, which we call the Blacke-Mores. 1631R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlew. (1641) 308 The Blackmoore may sooner change his skin, the Leopard his spots. 1666Pepys Diary (1879) VI. 46 For a cook maid we have used a blackmoore. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. iii. (1852) 576 The instruction of the poor blackamores. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. Lett. Ap. 26 The first day we came to Bath, he..beat two black-a-moors. 1856R. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 271 As far below the reality as a blackamoor is unlike the sun.
b. attrib.
1580Sidney Arcadia 36 A Coach drawne with foure milke white horses..with a black-a-Moore boy vpon euery horse. 1676Hobbes Iliad i. 403 To Blackmoor-land the Gods went yesterday. 1706Lond. Gaz. No. 4238/8 A Blackamore Man called Cæsar. 1716Ibid. No. 5434/3 Run away..a Black Moore Boy.
†c. blackamoor's teeth: cowry shells. Obs.
1700W. King Transactioneer 36 He has Shells called Blackmoors Teeth, I suppose..from their Whiteness. 1719W. Wood Surv. Trade 334 Known by the Name of Cowries amongst Merchants, or of Blackamore's Teeth among other Persons.
2. fig. A devil.
1663Cowley Cut. Coleman St. iv. vi, He's dead long since, and gone to the Blackamores below.
3. attrib. Black-skinned, quite black.
1813J. Forbes Orient. Mem. I. 325 The first blackamoor pullen I ever saw was here: the outward skin of the fowl was a perfect negro. 1856E. Capern Poems (ed. 2) 90 Some blackamoor rook. |