Usage of "blackamoor"

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

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Uso de blackamoor en inglés

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... 