blackamoor

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black·a·moor

B0292800 (blăk′ə-mo͝or′)n. Offensive A dark-skinned person, especially one from northern Africa.

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[black + -a-, of unknown origin + Moor.]

blackamoor

(ˈblækəˌmʊə; -ˌmɔː) narchaic a Black African or other person with dark skin[C16: see Black, Moor]

black•a•moor

(ˈblæk əˌmʊər)

n. Archaic. a person with very dark skin. [1540–50; unexplained variant of phrase black Moor]

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Noun

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blackamoor - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)Black person, Negro, Negroid, Blackindividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"Africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Oceanperson of color, person of colour - (formal) any non-European non-white personNegress - a Black woman or girlBlack race, Negro race, Negroid race - a dark-skinned raceBlack man - a man who is BlackBlack woman - a woman who is Blackcolored, colored person - a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensivedarkey, darkie, darky - (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black peopleTom, Uncle Tom - (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whitespicaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black childethnic slur - a slur on someone's race or languagearchaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression

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