What does negress mean?
Negress means (dated, literary, now offensive and an ethnic slur) A black female..
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/ˈniːɡɹɪs/ · noun
(dated, literary, now offensive and an ethnic slur) A black female..
1995, A. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress (book title)
Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, […]
Hardly anywhere in the world will you find a negress driving a car. A negress acting as a chauffeur is still more extraordinary. Barely conceivable even in Harlem, but that was certainly where the car was from.
Use negress when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Negress means (dated, literary, now offensive and an ethnic slur) A black female..
Common synonyms include negrette, niggerette, niggeress, niggress.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1995, A. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress (book title)
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