Usage of "blackamoor"

Portuguese

negro

Catalan

negre

Spanish

negro

A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).

negro

Synonyms

Examples for "black"

The pet was now in the arms of the woman in black. 
 Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater; Or, The Most Dangerous Performanc... 

Tinaja similar in form and size to the preceding; black polished ware. 
 Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the India... 

Brief shots of black-clad armed men standing at attention, pleased; general joy. 
 Valis 

Look at your boat, sir; you in the red and black caps. 
 Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) 

This is not a black-and-white 1930s issue, this is a global issue. 
 The Guardian 

Wants to write an opera, not negro, but can't find good libretto. 
 The new yorker 

There is need for negro men to stay and establish the camp. 
 Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan... 

Some were said to be offended by the presence of negro wenches. 
 Wench: a novel 

Writer compares the crude negro dialects employed in this book with No. 
 The new yorker 

In the first group the negro vote is under 5 per cent. 
 Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment 

His skin was intensely black, but the features were not at all negroid. 
 Allan and the Holy Flower 

These same negroid savages are as bold as they are ferocious. 
 Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" 

He was a dark young man with something negroid about his gleaming face. 
 The World Set Free 

This man was of a moderate size, and with a black negroid face. 
 The Island of Dr. Moreau 

She was absolutely in the power of the negroid brute. 
 The Hawk of Egypt 

It seemed unthinkable then that a black person would be elected president. 
 The Guardian 

He's a black person again. Mmusi Maimane is one of us now. 
 The South African 

By this time I was scared to call myself a black person. 
 The Guardian 

But the American black man is a unique kind of black person. 
 Black is the new white 

And all of those things happened simply because I was a black person. 
 The last hero: a life of henry aaron 

Usage of blackamoor in English

Waiting upon her at either hand were the blackamoor and the negress. 
 Heralds of Empire / Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieu... 

No, the beastly blackamoor had done the business on his own account. 
 The Adventures of Captain Horn 

What had kept him so long, and why had he turned blackamoor? 
 Swiss Family Robinson 

Many blackamoor figures portray exoticized images of servants and slaves of African descent. 
 Ebony 

I knew it was no blackamoor that was stealing into the great house. 
 Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume 

From the chairs stepped the blackamoor, painted as white as paste. 
 Heralds of Empire / Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieu... 

A pack of fiends were better companions, I trow, than your blackamoor troop. 
 The Sea-Witch; Or, The African Quadroon: A Story of the Slave Co... 

Lily, whom he might have had in his bosom, would have been no blackamoor. 
 The Small House at Allington 

I am such a blackamoor that I cannot smirch myself. 
 Middlemarch 

I'll ask him, and assure him that the blackamoor is not to be trusted. 
 Hurricane Hurry 

Doubtless you will hang us all by aid of that blackamoor gallant of yours? 
 Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 

Be'st thou the de'il, or the de'il's footman, sir blackamoor? 
 Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 

I trow you mean the old blackamoor sword-cutler's wench. 
 The Armourer's Prentices 

I have only one body-servant with me, this unlucky blackamoor, who speaks nothing save Dutch. 
 A Reputed Changeling; Or, Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago 

I won't leave him, though he marries a blackamoor, thought George as he sat alone. 
 The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction 

After a minute or two the blackamoor spoke in whispers: Mistress Jennings need have no fear. 
 The Touchstone of Fortune / Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who... 