noun
blackamoor
Blackamoor (noun) means (dated) A person with very dark skin, especially someone from North Africa.
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(dated) A person with very dark skin, especially someone from North Africa.
"Argent, three blackamoors’ heads couped sable, capped or, fretty gules."
""What!" exclaimed the Prince, "the music is by the blackamoor (a black Moor). Well, my fine blackamoor, henceforth thou art in my service.""
— Dr. Kwaku Person-Lynn, Beethoven: Revealing His True Identity (2003)
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(dated, offensive) An old term for a black person kept as a slave or worker, later used for anyone treated as inferior, including servants and children.
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Etymology
Comes from earlier blackmoor with -a- added. By surface analysis it is black + -a- + Moor.
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What is the meaning of blackamoor?
"blackamoor" (noun) means (dated) A person with very dark skin, especially someone from North Africa.
What are the different meanings of blackamoor?
"blackamoor" has 2 main meanings: 1. (dated) A person with very dark skin, especially someone from North Africa; 2. (dated, offensive) An old term for a black person kept as a slave or worker, later used for anyone treated as inferior, including servants and children.
