Blackamoor

Quick meaning: Blackamoor is a noun meaning (now offensive) A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Argent, three blackamoors’ heads couped sable, capped or, fretty gules.

Go venture shipwreck on the sullen coasts Where blackamoors make captive Christian men .

She seems to have been a serious girl, but she remembered her father's characterization of her as his "Little blackamoor."

"What!" exclaimed the Prince, "the music is by the blackamoor (a black Moor). Well, my fine blackamoor, henceforth thou art in my service."

Word Forms

• blackamoors
• blackamore
• blackemore
• blackemoor
• blackymore
• blackmoor

Synonyms for blackamoor

Depending on context, synonyms include black, Negro, negroid.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include black, blackamore, blackmoor, blackskin, boogaloo, blacky-white.

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