blackamoor🔊

(archaic, heraldry, now often offensive) A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa.

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`Well, Job,' I said, `perhaps it would be as well. There are lots of blankets there, only be careful to keep out of the moon, or it may turn your head or blind you.' `Lord, sir! I don't think it would much matter if it did; it is that turned already with the sight of these blackamoors and their filthy, thieving ways.'

H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure

[...] and then sprang with a drop leap from one of the trees a big slobbering blackamoor with rolling eyes which showed the whites, a truly hideous sight.

Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

(now offensive) A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child.

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